Dave Goulson

Dave is a Professor of Biology at Sussex University, and has been studying bumblebees for the last 20 years.

He has published more than 200 scientific papers on the ecology and conservation of bees and other insects, and is the author of the bestselling “A Sting in the Tale”.

In 2006 he founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, which now has 8,000 members. For his work on conserving bumblebees he was made BBSRC”s Social Innovator of the Year 2010, and in 2013 he was given the Zoological Society of London”s March Award for Conservation Biology.