I enlisted to do a PhD at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2003. My chosen subject was the origin of hominin bipedalism and the wading hypothesis. After a few depressing years when the infuriating peer review method frustrated every attempt to get a pretty simple and, although I say it myself, rather elegant paper published, I packed the whole thing in, only to restart again and finally pass in 2016.

In all those twenty or so years at UWA I helped in the Human Anatomy (now, bizarrely called Human Sciences) department as a first year Human Biology tutor. It’s been a privilege and pleasure for me to have been able to try to help over 2,000 students to consolidate their studies.