Rate My Professor Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology (Evolution, Behaviour and Environment) at the University of Sussex in the School of Life Sciences. He studied biology at Brasenose College, Oxford, and completed a PhD in butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University. Goulson began his academic career as a lecturer in biology at the University of Southampton in 1995. He moved to the University of Stirling as Professor of Biological Sciences in 2006 before joining the University of Sussex in 2013.

His research focuses on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006. He has authored numerous books including Bumblebees: Their Behaviour and Ecology (2003), A Sting in the Tale (2013), A Buzz in the Meadow (2014), Bee Quest (2017), The Garden Jungle (2019), Gardening for Bumblebees (2021) and Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021). He has published more than 300 scientific articles and received awards including the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Social Innovator of the Year Award in 2010, the Zoological Society of London’s Marsh Award for Conservation Biology in 2013 and the British Ecological Society’s Public Engagement Award in 2014. Goulson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Entomological Society.