Norman Carreck
Bee scientist and Editor of The Beekeepers Quarterly
Norman Carreck has kept bees for 46 years and has been a bee research scientist for 35 years.
He is joint editor of the Beekeepers Quarterly, a director of Carreck Consultancy Ltd and Bee Publishing Ltd and is based at the University of Sussex, UK.
Norman has been a member of the Executive Committee of the international honey bee research network "COLOSS" for many years.
He has lectured about bees on all continents where bees are kept, written many scientific papers, book chapters, conference contributions and popular articles, and edited several books. Most recently, Sustainable Honey Bee Breeding, a Scientific Guide for Future Beekeeping.
He has regularly appeared in the media in many countries.
His research interests have been extensive, covering conservation of honey bees, pollination ecology, bee behaviour, bee pathology and forage for bees. He has spent almost as much time working on non apis bees and other pollinators as honey bees.
Over the years, he has been Science Director of the International Bee Research Association, and Senior Editor of the Journal of Apicultural Research, having started out at Rothamsted Research, UK.
He is married to Dr Andrea Quigley.
