Seirian Sumner

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Seirian Sumner
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Born1974 (age 49–50)
Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Alma materUniversity College London (BSc, PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
University College London

Seirian Sumner (born 1974)

entomologist and behavioural ecologist
. She is a professor at University College London and is an expert in social wasps.

Education and career

Sumner was educated at

Behavioural Ecology in 2016 and Professor in 2020.[4]

Research

Sumner's research looks at the

parasitic ant species which evolved from and parasitises on a leaf-cutter species in Panama, she found that queens of the parasite species only mate with a single male, compared to the host leaf-cutter queens which mate with multiple males.[10]

She is an advocate of the

wasps showed that the benefits of bees are widely understood but those of wasps are not, which is also reflected in the amount of scientific research into the two groups, with wasps being underresearched compared to bees.[17] Sumner cofounded the citizen science initiative The Big Wasp Survey in 2017 with Professor Adam Hart to raise awareness of the role and diversity of social wasp species in the UK[18] and to compare the accuracy of citizen science data with long-term biological recording data.[19]

Public activities

With Dr Nathalie Pettorelli of the Zoological Society of London, Sumner cofounded Soapbox Science in 2011, a platform that promotes women working in science.[20] Sumner has taken part in several Pint of Science events,[21][22][23] and has spoken at the Cheltenham Science Festival in 2016.[24] With the FoAM Kernow lab in Falmouth, Sumner helped create an online game #wasplove[25] for people to create their own wasp societies.[26] Sumner was an invited speaker at the EntoSci event in 2020 talking about her career to 14 to 18 year olds.[27] In 2022, Sumner gave an invited talk at New Scientist Live in London.[28]

She has written a popular science book titled Endless Forms on wasps, published by William Collins in 2022.[29] The Observer commented that the book "wearily" catalogues the "anti-wasp media" from Aristotle and Shakespeare to modern times, and that Sumner argues it is time to drop the "lazy tropes" associated with the wasp. Instead, she sets out the case for appreciating wasps, in science, society, and culture.[30]

References

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  1. ^ "Serian Sumner". Linkedin. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. ^ Sumner, Seirian-Rose Maria (1999). PhD Thesis. ethos.bl.uk (Ph.D). British Library. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. ^ "The Scientist Article". www.the-scientist.com. 1 August 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  4. ^ Sumner, Serian (May 2019). "Academic Homepage". Division of Biosciences. University College London. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
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  6. PMID 26483466
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  11. ^ "BBC News article". www.bbc.co.uk. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  12. ^ "ITV News article". www.itv.com. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  13. ^ "The Conversation article". theconversation.com. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  14. ^ Sumner, Serian (17 February 2021). "Why I Matter". newint.org. New Internationalist. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  15. ^ "This idea must die". Portico. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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  17. doi:10.1111/een.12676
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  18. ^ "Big Wasp Survey". www.bigwaspsurvey.org. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  19. S2CID 109920397
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  20. ^ "Soapbox Science". soapboxscience.org. 8 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  21. ^ "The really wild show". Pint of Science. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  22. ^ "Unwanted Visitors". Pint of Science. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  23. ^ "Welcome to Insect night!". Pint of Science. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  24. ^ "Experts create a buzz as they reveal why we should love wasps". ITV News. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  25. ^ "The #wasplove game". wasplove.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  26. ^ "The #wasplove game". FoAM. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  27. ^ "Events - EntoSci20". Harper Adams University. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  28. ^ "Seirian Sumner". New Scientist Live 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  29. ISBN 978-0-00-839449-3
    . Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  30. ^ Coldwell, Will (22 May 2022). "Why we should all love wasps". The Observer. Retrieved 24 June 2022.

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