Prof Dave Goulson
| Post: | Professor Of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) |
| Location: | JMS BUILDING 5D20 |
| Email: | D.Goulson@sussex.ac.uk |
| Personal homepage: | goulsonlab |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8843 |
| UK: | 01273 678843 |
| International: | +44 1273 678843 |
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Biography
For details of research and publications, go to: Goulson Lab
After a childhood chasing butterflies and collecting bird’s eggs, I studied Biology at Oxford University, and then did a PhD on butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University. Shortly afterwards I got a lectureship at University of Southampton, where I stayed for 11 years. It was there that I began to specialize in bumblebee ecology and conservation. In 2006 I became Professor of Biology and Stirling University. In 2006 I also founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity devoted to reversing bumblebee declines. In 2013 I moved to Sussex University.
I have published over 200 scientific articles on the ecology of bees and other insects, and am author of Bumblebees; their behaviour, ecology and conservation (2010, Oxford University Press) and A Sting in the Tale (2013, Jonathan Cape), a popular science book about bumblebees.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2010 I was BBSRC "Social Innovator of the Year" and in 2013 I won the Marsh Award for Conservation Biology from the Zoological Society of London.