Dr. David Clayton
Professor
Short Curriculum Vitae
1991-Present : Sultan Qaboos University:
1998-Present: Deanship of Admissions & Registration
As Assistant, Deputy and Acting Dean, Expert
1996 Assistant Dean, College of Science
1991 Associate Professor, Biology Department
1990-1991 : University of the South West
Temporary Lecturer Biology Department.
1977-1990 : Kuwait University: Zoology Department.
1981 Associate Professor
1977 Lectureship in Zoology
1975-1977 : Newcastle University: Zoology Department.
Demonstratorship in Zoology (Animal Behaviour).
1971-1975 : Sussex University: School of Biology.
Research Fellow in Ethology and Neuro-physiology Group.
1968-1971 : Leicester University, UK: Psychology Department. Ph. D.
1965-1968 : Hull University, UK: Zoology Department. B.Sc. Honors
Specialisation: Marine Biology with particular interests in behavioural ecology.
Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University.
Abbreviated Publication List
While my main research and teaching interests remain in Marine Biology, my administrative duties in the Deanship
have required analyses of student performance data leading to my involvement in educational research.
Alkhausi, H.A., Al-Yahmadi, Al-Kalbani H.M., Clayton D., Al-Barwani, T., Al-Sulaimani, H.,
Neisler, O. & Khan, M.A. 2015. Predictors of First-Year Sultan Qaboos University
Students’ Grade Point Average. Journal of Education and Practice, 6, 12, 121-127.
Clayton, D. 2008. Singing and dancing in the Ghost crab Ocypode platytarsus (Crustacea,
Decapoda, Ocypodidae). Journal of Natural History, 42, 141-15.
Clayton, D. 2005. Substrate (acoustic/vibrational) communication and ecology of the
ghost crab Ocypode jousseaumei (Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Marine and Freshwater
Behaviour and Physiology 38(1): 53-70.
Clayton, D.A. 1993 Mudskippers. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual
Review, 31, 507-577.
Clayton, D.A. 1988 Why mudskippers build walls. Behaviour, 102, 185-195.
Al-Hassan, J., Clayton, D.A., Thomson, M. and Criddle, R.S. 1988 Taxonomy and
distribution of ariid catfishes of the Arabian Gulf. Journal of Natural History, 22, 473487.
Clayton, D.A. 1978 Socially facilitated behavior. Quarterly Review of Biology, 53, 373392.
Contact Address: Deanship of Admissions & Registration, P.O. Box 31, Sultan Qaboos
University, PC 123 Al Khod, Sultanate of Oman, Tel (+968) 24141816/1807, Fax: (+968)
24413861, email: david@squ.edu.om.