Research students
Teun de Jong
University of Bristol PhD Scholarship for Collaboration with the University of Cape Town
Lead supervisor: Patrick Kennedy
Co-supervisor: Andy Radford
Teun is a second-year PhD student exploring social evolution in the Belonogaster wasps of Africa
Ayla Webb
Bristol-Macquarie Cotutelle
PhD Scholarship
Bristol supervisor: Patrick Kennedy
Macquaurie supervisor: Adam Stow
Ayla is a second-year PhD student exploring social evolution in the Ropalidia wasps of Australia
Teun on fieldwork prior to his PhD in Panama
(PI: Patrick Kennedy, patrick.kennedy [AT] bristol.ac.uk)
Ayla on fieldwork (not with a wasp)
Abby Bryce
Bristol-Macquarie Cotutelle
PhD Scholarship
Bristol supervisor: Patrick Kennedy
Macquaurie supervisor: Adam Stow
Abby is a first-year PhD student exploring the social evolution of dispersal using theory and fieldwork with Australian cooperatively breeding birds
Ellie Trelfa Stewart
NERC DLTP PhD Scholarship
Lead supervisor: Patrick Kennedy
Co-supervisors: Andy Radford, Andrew Higginson
Ellie is a first-year PhD student exploring dominance in African wasps
Ropalidia wasp, Credit: Ayla Webb
Dylan Thatcher
Masters by Research
Dylan is a research masters student developing theoretical models of social evolution
Claire des Pallieres
Biological Sciences PhD
Main supervisor: Prof Stephanie King (Bristol)
Claire is a first-year PhD student working on social behaviour with the famous Shark Bay dolphins of Western Australia
Romuald Tcheutchoua
Commonwealth PhD Scholarship
Final year PhD student
Main supervisor: Prof Seirian Sumner (UCL)
Romuald is a former field assistant (working with Patrick in Cameroon) who is now a Commonwealth Scholar at University College London in the lab of Professor Seirian Sumner, and cosupervised by Patrick. He studies the potential uses of wasps in food security.
Romuald in action in the field in Cameroon
Keletso Malebye
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Keletso has recently completed her degree at the University of Pretoria, and has been working in the field with PhD student Teun de Jong to study the wonderful wasps of South Africa
Intern students and field teams
Keletso greeting one of our study participants in South Africa
Olivia Brown
Macquarie University, Australia
Olivia is a Masters student at Macquarie University (Sydney), recently working in the field with PhD student Ayla Webb to explore wasp behaviour on the New South Wales coast
Fieldwork in South Africa