Adam Hart

Adam Hart FRES FRSB born in Brixham, South Devon is an English scientist, author and broadcaster. He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects (BBC4's Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, BBC2's Life on Planet Ant and BBC2's Hive Alive). Hart has written and presented numerous BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries and written more than seventy scientific papers. In 2015, he authored the popular-science book The Life of Poo about our complex relationships with bacteria. In 2017 he joined the presenting team of the BBC World Service weekly science programme Science in Action. 2Academic career Hart was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, studying Zoology at Churchill College. His PhD at the University of Sheffield was on the cooperative behaviour of social insects (a group he became interested in because of their social behaviour). Following a post-doc examining conflict in social systems, he transferred to the University of Gloucestershire in 2005, where he is currently the Professor of Science Communication. Hart has published scientific papers on a variety of topics, including entomology, ecology, disease, hygiene, nesting phenology, citizen science and climate change. He co- wrote the Oxford University Press textbook Applied Ecology, described as 'a cornerstone publication for all undergraduate students studying ecology', and is also a co-author of the textbook Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigatio