Professor Adam Hart
Professor Adam Hart, Professor of Science Communication, University of Gloucestershire
Cambridge Zoology graduate, Professor Adam Hart is an award-winning scientist who was given the title of Science Communicator of the Year in 2010 by the Royal Society of Biology. Adam is Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire, and a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. He has a broad research portfolio that includes insect science, African ecology, citizen science, and conservation. His teaching includes ecology, field work, behaviour and diversity, emphasising the importance of making connections between nature and the changing environment.
An author and frequent broadcaster, Adam has presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and World Service and is a frequent commentator on science and environmental matters. He co-presented the BBC4/Discovery USA documentary ‘Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony’, the BBC Learning spin-off programme for children ‘Life on Planet Ant’ and the BB2 series Hive Alive. He has presented nearly 40 documentaries for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service including ‘The Tree Scientists’, on ash dieback disease and ‘On the Trail of the American Honeybee’, which saw him travel to California to witness the largest pollination event on Earth. In 2018 he wrote and presented Inside the ‘Killing Jar’ about the ethics of insect science and is the writer and presenter of the BBC World Service series Tooth and Claw interviewing people who live and work with predators, now in its second series.
As an author, Adam has co-authored two textbooks, on forensic science and applied ecology. Adam has also written two popular science books, 2015’s Life of Poo about our complex relationships with bacteria and 2020’s ‘Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World’. This book sees Adam unearth the evolutionary causes of our current woes, along with evolutionary-informed treatments that will change the way we think about ourselves and our future. His latest book, Eaten, will be published in 2022 and explores how can we live with predators and what the future holds for their conservation.
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