Dr Liz Somerville

Biography

Role

Director of Student Support, Life Sciences
Please email me if you have queries relevant to this role (e.g. MEC, Temporary withdrawal, Student representation).

Convenor
Human Sciences degree programme

Neuropharmacology of meal patterning (in collaboration with Dr P. Clifton, Sussex).

Post-excavation work on analysis of marine shells.

Course Organiser

Final Year:
Modern Human Evolution
Past Lives
Environmental History: Landscape & Archaeology

Second Year:
Human Evolution: From Palaeontology to Culture

Human Sciences courses: 
Cross Disciplinary Studies (3rd year)
HUMS Dissertation (4th year)

Student Consultation

Summer Term 2013: Tuesdays 2pm-3pm and Fridays 2pm-3pm
NB there is no need to make an appointment to see me at this time, which I will do my best to maintain throughout the term.
If this time is not possible for you, please email me to make an appointment.

Nilsson, S R O, Ripley, T L, Somerville, E M and Clifton, P G (2012) Reduced activity at the 5-HT(2C) receptor enhances reversal learning by decreasing the influence of previously non-rewarded associations. Psychopharmacology, 224 (2). pp. 241-254. ISSN 0033-3158

Pulman, Kim G T, Somerville, Elizabeth M and Clifton, Peter G (2012) Intra-accumbens baclofen, but not muscimol, increases second order instrumental responding for food reward in rats. PloS ONE, 7 (7). e40057. ISSN 1932-6203

Nilsson, S R O, Ripley, T L, Somerville, E M and Clifton, P G (2012) Reduced activity at the 5-HT2C receptor enhances reversal learning by decreasing the influence of previously non-rewarded associations. Psychopharmacology, 224 (2). pp. 241-254. ISSN 0033-3158

Somerville, Liz (2011) The marine molluscs from Pevensey Castle. In: Pevensey Castle, Sussex: excavations in the Roman fort and medieval keep, 1993-95. Wessex Archaeology, pp. 100-107. ISBN 9781874350552

Pulman , K. G. T., Somerville, E. M. and Clifton, P. G. (2010) Intra-accumbens baclofen, but not muscimol, mimics the effects of food withdrawal on the behavioural satiety sequence. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 97 (1). pp. 156-162. ISSN 0091-3057

Somerville, Liz (2010) The marine molluscs from Bishopstone. In: The later Anglo-Saxon settlement at Bishopstone. CBA Research Report, 163 . Council for British Archeology. ISBN 9781902771830

Somerville, Elizabeth M, Horwood, Julia M, Lee, Michelle D, Kennett, Guy A and Clifton, Peter G (2007) 5-HT2C receptor activation inhibits appetitive and consummatory components of feeding and increases brain c-fos immunoreactivity in mice. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25 (10). pp. 3115-3124. ISSN 1460-9568

Somerville, Liz and Bonell, J (2006) The Marine Shell. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 144. pp. 94-97.

Somerville, Elizabeth M and Creme, Phyllis (2005) 'Asking Pompeii questions': a co-operative approach to Writing in the Disciplines. Teaching in Higher Education, 10 (1). pp. 17-28. ISSN 1356-2517

Somerville, Liz (2005) Shells. Britannia, 36. p. 91. ISSN 0068-113X

Lee, Michelle D, Somerville, Elizabeth M, Kennett, Guy A, Dourish, Colin T and Clifton, Peter G (2004) Reduced hypophagic effects of d-fenfluramine and the 5-HT2C receptor agonist mCPP in 5-HT1B receptor knockout mice. Psychopharmacology, 176 (1). pp. 39-49. ISSN 0033-3158

Lee, Michelle D, Somerville, Elizabeth M, Kennett, Guy A, Dourish, Colin T and Clifton, Peter G (2004) Tonic regulation of satiety by 5-HT1B receptors in the mouse: converging evidence from behavioural and c-fos immunoreactivity studies. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19 (11). pp. 3017-3025. ISSN 0953-816X

Clifton, Peter G, Lee, Michelle D, Somerville, Elizabeth M, Kennett, Guy A and Dourish, Colin T (2003) 5-HT1B receptor knockout mice show a compensatory reduction in 5-HT2C receptor function. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17 (1). pp. 185-190. ISSN 1460-9568

Somerville, Liz and Bonell, JK (2003) Marine Shell. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 141. pp. 123-124.

Somerville, E (2003) Sussex: from environmental change to landscape history. In: The Archaeology of Sussex to AD2000. Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd for the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, pp. 235-246. ISBN 9780954445614

Ward, B O, Somerville, E M and Clifton, P G (2000) Intra-accumbens baclofen selectively enhances feeding behaviour in the rat. Physiology and Behavior, 68 (4). pp. 463-468. ISSN 0031-9384

Somerville, Elizabeth M (1999) Some aspects of the palaeoecology of commensals. Journal of Quaternary Science, 14 (6). pp. 605-613. ISSN 0267-8179

Somerville, E M (1996) Piltdown reflections: a mirror for prehistory. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 134. pp. 7-19. ISSN 0143-8204