Victoria Lockwood
Program: Human Paleobiology PhD
Year Entered: 2017
Advisors: Bernard Wood and Carson Murray
2017 Masters by Research thesis: “Biomechanics of the human hand during suspensory locomotion: a combined pressure and kinematic approach”. University of Kent. Advisors: Dr. Tracy Kivell and Dr. Matthew Skinner.
2016 Undergraduate dissertation: “Morphological variation in posterior femoral entheses in humans and non-human primates”. University of Kent. Advisor: Dr. Matthew Skinner.
2014 “The extractive foraging hypothesis, tool use category and absolute brain volume in primates”. Human Brain Evolution Laboratory, directed by Dr. Tom Schoenemann, Indiana University, Bloomington. Presented at 9th Annual Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington.
2020 Exploration and Field Research Grant, The Explorers Club Washington Group ($2085)
2019 Grants-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi ($300)
2019 Lewis N. Cotlow Award, The George Washington University ($1800)
2016 Social Sciences Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance in Degree Programme, University of Kent
2016 Anthropology Best Dissertation Prize, University of Kent
2015 Undergraduate Paper Prize, 9th Annual Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington
Victoria Lockwood is interested in the evolution of the musculoskeletal system, particularly in relation to locomotion and the upper limb, using a combined approach of locomotion biomechanics, functional morphology, primatology, and comparative anatomy.
Conference abstracts
Lockwood VA, Lonsdorf EV, Stanton MA, Lee SM, and Murray CM. The relationship between arboreality and climate variables in lactating female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Virtual, April 2021.
Lockwood V A, Lu S-C, Winter S, and Kivell T L. Support size and thumb position preferences in humans during suspension and vertical climbing: Implications for hominin hand evolution. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles, California, April 2020.
Ng L, Stevenson S, Maraka J, Stark H, Lockwood V, Diogo R, and Crowley B. Radial Polydactyly: The not so innocent floating radial duplicate. International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Berlin, Germany, June 2019.
Lockwood V A, and Brooks A S. The effect of hand grip on the cutting efficiency and edge dulling of basalt flakes. GW Research Days, Washington, DC, April 2019.
Lockwood V A, Lu S-C, Winter S, and Kivell T L. An experimental study of human hand pressures during suspension and implications for fossil hominin locomotion. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, Ohio, March 2019.
Crowley, B, Diogo R, Lockwood V, Wright L, Ng L, and Stevenson S. Polydactyly: putting together development, evolution and pathologies. XXIII Congress of the Federation of the European Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2018.
Lockwood V A, and Skinner M M. Morphological variation in posterior femoral entheses in humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 2016.
Lockwood V A. The extractive foraging hypothesis, tool use category and absolute brain volume in primates. 9th Annual Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, February 2015.
MSc-R Biological Anthropology, University of Kent, awarded 2018
BSc Biological Anthropology with a Year in the United States, University of Kent, 2016