Alice D. Bridges
Email: a.d.bridges@qmul.ac.ukResearch interests
Culture represents a second form of
inheritance, whereby novel behavioural innovations may be seen
as analogous to genetic mutations, and are passed across
generations through social learning. Despite their tiny brains,
bumblebees are capable of learning relatively complex behaviours
and transmitting these to their conspecifics, making them
excellent models for the study of social learning and non-human
culture. The aim of my PhD is to investigate sociocognitive
processes in bumblebees, and the potential for culture to be
cumulative in this species.
Educational background
2017-Present: PhD student, Queen Mary
University of London, UK (supervisor: Professor Lars Chittka,
co-supervisor: Dr Elisabetta Versace)
2013-2016: BSc Biological Sciences
(1st class, honours), University of Durham, UK