• Module organiser, Social Evolution (BIO-6011B) (2008 - 2023)
• Director of Research, BIO (2017 - 2022)
• Member, BIO Executive (2017 - 2022)
• Member, BIO Promotions Committee (2017 - 2022)
• Deputy Head of School, BIO (2014 - 2017)
• Coordinator, BIO Open Lectures (2012 - 2017)

My research interests lie in the study of social evolution and in the conservation ecology and genetics of social insects. I obtained my B.A. in Zoology from the University of Cambridge in 1983 and my Ph.D. from the University of Bath in 1987. After a Junior Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, I moved to the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, in 1992. At the Institute of Zoology, I was first a Research Fellow, then a Senior Research Fellow, then (from 2003) a Reader. In 2006, I came to UEA as Professor of Evolutionary Biology. I was an Editor, then Editor-in-Chief, of the journal 'Behavioral Ecology' from 2000 to 2006. As well as research papers, review articles and book chapters, I have authored or coauthored two books, 'Social Evolution in Ants' (with Nigel Franks, 1995, Princeton University Press) and 'Principles of Social Evolution' (2011, Oxford University Press).

Website: http://www.andrewbourke.org

• 2023 - present: Emeritus Professor, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
• 2006 - 2023: Professor of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, UEA
• 2003 - 2006: Reader, Institute of Zoology (IoZ), Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
• 1992 - 2002: Research Fellow then Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, ZSL
• 1988 - 1991: Junior Research Fellow (Jesus College), Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• 1983 - 1987: Ph.D., School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath
• 1980 - 1983: B.A. (Hons) Zoology, University of Cambridge

ResearcherID

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-5271-2011

I am an evolutionary biologist and behavioural ecologist interested in the evolutionary, ecological and genetic basis of social behaviour and in the conservation biology of social insects. Particular research areas and activities include:

• Empirical studies to test hypotheses from inclusive fitness (kin selection) theory using (primarily) bumble bees
• Conceptual, synthetic and empirical studies that apply insights from the study of social evolution to related domains, examples being the evolution of ageing and the major transitions in evolution
• Developing genetic methods for censusing wild populations of bees with a view to aiding conservation initiatives for these threatened pollinators
• Assessment of agri-environment schemes for bumble bees and the conservation genetics of scarce or declining social insects