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Owen Corbett

Owen Corbett

PhD Student, Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution now Dr Corbett

Former lab member

Bluesky

About

Owen successfully defended his thesis on 15th April 2025.

Research interests

Behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology of eusocial species — the evolutionary mechanisms underlying plasticity of behaviour within the social environment, and resolution of reproductive conflict in cooperatively breeding societies.

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

Research

Career

  1. 2018–2025: PhD Candidate, University College London
  2. 2014–2018: MSci Biological Sciences, University College London

Project

Mechanisms of conflict resolution in cooperatively breeding insect societies.