The Sumner Lab Insect Research Group · UCL
Owen Corbett

Owen Corbett

PhD Student, Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution

Former lab member

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Owen successfully defended his thesis on 15th April 2025.

Project: Mechanisms of conflict resolution in cooperatively breeding insect societies.

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

Background

  • 2018–2025: PhD Candidate, University College London
  • 2014–2018: MSci Biological Sciences, University College London