Adam Hart is an English scientist, author and broadcaster, specialising in ecology, entomology and conservation, especially in southern Africa.
33 Facts About Adam Hart
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Adam Hart has co-presented three BBC TV documentaries on social insects.
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Adam Hart was educated at the University of Cambridge, studying Zoology as an undergraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Adam Hart became interested in insects because of their social behaviour.
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Adam Hart subsequently completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education at the University of Gloucestershire.
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Adam Hart has published scientific papers on a variety of topics, including entomology, ecology, disease, hygiene, nesting phenology, citizen science, Africa antelope surveying, thermal imaging, African grassland management and climate change.
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Research Adam Hart co-authored on the use of low-cost thermal imaging for anti-poaching work won the 2019 Green Gowns Awards in the Research with Impact category.
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Adam Hart co-authored the Oxford University Press textbook Applied Ecology, described as "a cornerstone publication for all undergraduate students studying ecology", and is a co-author of Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigation, a textbook.
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Adam Hart has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Ecological Entomology and is currently an Associate Editor of that journal.
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Adam Hart sits on the editorial board of The Biologist, the magazine of the Royal Society of Biology, and is an Associate Editor of Antenna, the magazine of the Royal Entomological Society.
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Adam Hart is the founding co-editor of Instar, a magazine published by the Royal Entomological Society for children.
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Adam Hart authored a piece for BBC Online News defending wasps and their ecological value as well as putting forward the scientific case for the Big Wasp Survey.
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Adam Hart later went on to make a BBC Radio 4 documentary and a BBC World Service series exploring some of the issues raised.
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Adam Hart has discussed topics including the fear of spiders, the threat of tree diseases, banana disease and insect conservation.
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Adam Hart has a strong interest in African conservation and has published papers that include studies of grassland and herbivore management, surveying and has been particularly active in the trophy hunting debate.
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Adam Hart has written a number of high-profile articles on related issues, including trophy hunting, rhino poaching and the horn legalization debate, the issues of fences in conservation, misinformation in African conservation, and the economics and conservation issues of breeding of color variant antelopes in South Africa.
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Adam Hart co-directs the scientific research program of the Nkombi Volunteer Program in South Africa and is a trustee of the Wild Planet Trust.
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Adam Hart has frequently appeared on and presented TV and radio science documentaries.
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Adam Hart co-presented BBC4's Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, a 90-minute documentary about leafcutting ants, and BBC's two-part series Hive Alive.
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Adam Hart presented Life on Planet Ant, aimed at a younger audience, for BBC2.
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Since 2011, Adam Hart has presented BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service documentaries on an array of topics including honey, migratory beekeeping, swarm robotics, tree diseases, gut bacteria, de-extinction, trophy hunting, the concept of free will in biology and animal personality.
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Adam Hart presented the BBC World Service weekly science magazine programme Science in Action for three months in 2017.
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In 2018, Adam Hart wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentary Inside the Killing Jar, exploring the fact that entomologists often have to kill what they study.
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In 2019, following the broadcast of Inside the Killing Jar, Adam Hart co-authored a commentary paper on the ethics of insects in research, with a particular emphasis on ecological sampling and by-catch reduction.
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Adam Hart is a frequent public speaker, lecturing on topics that include social insects, citizen science and trophy hunting to schools, public audiences and special-interest groups.
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Adam Hart has written numerous articles for newspapers, magazines and for the BBC Science and Environment pages, including opinion pieces on migratory beekeeping, human-induced evolution, animal personality and the realities of modern-day African hunting.
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Adam Hart has written about the complex role of gut bacteria in human immunity.
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Adam Hart is a regular presenter and chair at the Cheltenham Science Festival, tackling topics such as tree diseases, bees, gut bacteria, and garden moths.
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Adam Hart has appeared at the Edinburgh, Northern Ireland and Malta Science Festivals, speaking on, amongst other things, the role of gut bacteria and the use of pheromones in communication.
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Adam Hart has been a speaker at the New Scientist Live Event held annually in London.
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Adam Hart hosted the 60th anniversary celebrations of the British Society for Immunology at the Royal Society and chaired the debate 'The changing face of medical research'.
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In recognition of his academic work, Adam Hart is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and of the Royal Society of Biology.
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In 2020, Adam Hart was elected a Trustee of the Royal Entomological Society and chairs their Outreach Committee, and in 2022 was made Vice President.