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Education
2015-present Royal Holloway University of London, PhD Biology. Urban Bees: Foraging and communication in a modern world (Elli Leadbeater & Rich Gill)
2014-2015 Royal Holloway University of London, MSc Biological Sciences by Research, Distinction
2011-2014 University of Sussex, BSc Biology, First Class (80%)
2002-2009 Cherwell School, Oxford
Grants & Awards
2017 IUSSI NW European Section Conference, York - Best Talk
2017 Royal Holloway Postgraduate Symposium - Best Poster (Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour)
2014 John Maynard Smith Award for Evolutionary Biology
2014 University of Sussex School Prize for Biology
Publications
Academic
Samuelson, A. E., Gill, R. J., Brown, M. J., & Leadbeater, E. (2018). Lower bumblebee colony reproductive success in agricultural compared with urban environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1881).
Samuelson, A.E, and Leadbeater, E. (2018) A land classification protocol for pollinator ecology research: An urbanization case study. Ecology & Evolution; 00:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4087
Samuelson, A.E. and Leadbeater, E. (2017). Foraging by Honeybees. In: Vonk, J. and Shackleford, T.K. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer
Balfour, N. J., Fensome, K. A., Samuelson, E. E., & Ratnieks, F. L. (2015). Following the dance: Ground survey of flowers
and flower-visiting insects in a summer foraging hotspot identified via honey bee waggle dance decoding. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 213, 265-271.
Garbuzov, M., Samuelson, E. E., & Ratnieks, F. L. (2014). Survey of insect visitation of ornamental flowers in Southover
Grange garden, Lewes, UK. Insect science.
Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L., Samuelson, E. E., & Couvillon M. J. (submitted). Dancing to her own beat: honey bee
foragers communicate via individually calibrated waggle dances.
Theses
Samuelson, E. E. (2015) Acute neonicotinoid exposure impairs bumblebee spatial memory performance on the radial-arm maze. MSc Thesis. Royal Holloway University of London, August 2015
Non-academic
Samuelson, A. E. (2018) The Plight of the Humble Bee Higher Magazine January 2018
Samuelson, E. E. (2015) Bees in the City: is Urbanisation Good or Bad for Bees? BeeCraft. May 2015
Presentations
Conferences
IUSSI NW European Section, York 2017 (Oral)
Behaviour, Estoril 2017 (Poster)
Central Association of Beekeepers, 2016 (Oral)
IUSII NW European Section, Helsinki 2016 (Oral)
ASAB Easter Meeting, Durham 2015 (Poster)
Outreach
Samuelson, E (2015) Urban Bees: Foraging behaviour and communication in a modern world
Kingston Beekeepers’ Association, May 2015 & February 2018
Surrey Bees Training Day, September 2015
Wimbledon Beekeepers’ Association, October 2015
Mid-Kent Beekeepers’ Association, October 2015
Sevenoaks Beekeepers'Association, January 2016 & January 2018
Hertfordshire Bees Spring Show, April 2016
Yalding Beekeepers' Association, May 2016 & September 2018
Mid-Bucks Beekeepers'Association, September 2016
North London Beekeepers' Association, October 2016
Dockenfield Garden Association, May 2017
Gillespie Park, August 2017
Bishop's Stortford Beekeepers' Association, November 2017
Central Sussex Beekeepers' Association, January 2018
Newcastle University, April 2018
Chalfonts Beekepers Associaton, May 2018
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Teaching & Academic Responsibilities
CERES International, Portugal (Mar-Jun 2018)
Supervision of undergraduate field course projects for Sussex, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Bath and Royal Holloway Universities
Lectures on terrestrial fieldwork techniques
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Royal Holloway, University of London
Co-ordination of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour seminars at Royal Holloway (2015)
Demonstrator for Animal Behaviour (2016, 2017, 2018) and Diversity of Life (2016) undergraduate degree course
Supervision of four undergraduate research projects and five Nuffield (A-level) student projects
Royal Holloway Science Festival (2015, 2016)
Skills
Statistics in R, GIS, pollen analysis, waggle dance decoding, honeybee and bumblebee behavioural research, wildflower identification, German speaking