Adam Hart

Not to be confused with Adam Hart-Davis.

Adam Hart
FRSB FRES
Adam Hart in 2021
Born
Adam Hart

Brixham, South Devon, England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
AwardsNational Teaching Fellowship (2010)

RSB Science Communicator of the Year (2010)
Green Gown UK HEI Research with Impact Award (2019)

British Ecological Society Marsh Book of the Year (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
Conservation
Social insects
Science communication
Pedagogy[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Gloucestershire
ThesisTask partitioning in insect societies (2001)
Doctoral advisorFrancis Ratnieks[2]
WebsiteOfficial webpage

Adam Hart FRSB FRES[3][4] is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa.[5][1] He has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects (BBC4's Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony,[6] BBC2's Life on Planet Ant[7] and BBC2's Hive Alive[8]). Hart has written and presented numerous BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries and written more than 120 scientific papers.[1][9]

In 2015, he authored the popular-science book The Life of Poo about our complex relationships with bacteria.[10]

His 2020 book, Unfit for Purpose, detailed mismatches between human evolution and the modern world and was published by Bloomsbury.[11] In 2017, he presented the BBC World Service weekly science programme Science in Action and in 2021 he presented the series Tooth and Claw.[12] A second, and third, series of Tooth and Claw were broadcast in 2022.[13] In 2022, his career was profiled on Radio 4's Life Scientific. The episode was recorded live at the Hay Festival and focussed on his early work on honeybees and leafcutting ants.[14] His third popular science book, focussing on the difficult realities of conservation, The Deadly Balance: Predators and People in a Crowded World was published in 2023.[15] In the same year, he co-authored the academic book Trophy Hunting with Nikolaj Bichel,[16] which won the 2023 Marsh Ecology Book of the Year prize, presented by the British Ecological Society, for "the book that has had the greatest influence on the science of ecology in any two-year period".[17]

  1. ^ a b c Adam Hart publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference adamphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Hart, Adam. "Academic Homepage". School of Natural and Social Sciences. University of Gloucestershire. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ "University of Sheffield Alumni Bulletin".
  5. ^ "Adam Hart". The Conversation. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony". BBC Four. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Life on Planet Ant". BBC Two. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Hive Alive". BBC Two. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  9. ^ Adam Hart publications from Europe PubMed Central
  10. ^ Life of Poo. ASIN 0857832921.
  11. ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Unfit for Purpose". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  12. ^ "BBC World Service". Discovery. BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  13. ^ "BBC Discovery".
  14. ^ "Adam Hart on ants, bees and insect burgers". BBC. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  15. ^ bloomsbury.com. "The Deadly Balance". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  16. ^ "Trophy Hunting, Bichel and Hart".
  17. ^ "Marsh Prize 2023 BES".