The Sumner Lab

Insect Research Group, University College London

Owen Corbett

Owen successfully defended his thesis on 15th April 2025

Position: PhD Student

Project: Mechanisms of conflict resolution in cooperatively breeding insect societies 

Research Interests: Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of eusocial species

I am interested in the evolutionary mechanisms underlying plasticity of behaviour within the social environment, and resolution of reproductive conflict in cooperatively breeding societies.

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Marking wasps in a derelict potting shed at the UWI Field Station, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

Background: 

2018 – Present: PhD Candidate, University College London

2014 – 2018: MSci Biological Sciences, University College London

Contact:

E-mail: owen.corbett.14@ucl.ac.uk

Bluesky: @OwenRCorbett