Dr Helga Bartels-Hardege

Dr Helga Bartels-Hardege

Senior Lecturer, Director of Foundation Year Studies

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Natural Sciences

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil

Summary

Helga Bartels-Hardege has been interested in chemical communication of marine invertebrates throughout her university career and is keen to transfer this enthusiasm to university and school students alike via research-led teaching and authentic science projects.

As the Director of Foundation Year Studies at Hull University, I am interested in widening participation by allowing students with alternative qualifications to access higher education. I am interested in methods of learning and teaching like the use of workplace and problem based learning within the department’s learning and teaching activities, methods, where students are in control of their own learning. As part of this I am involved in bringing real science into schools by placement modules, where students act as positive role models and offering special projects to promote science at schools.

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Taking Current Climate Change Research to the Classroom—The "Will Hermit Crabs Go Hungry in Future Oceans?" Project

Roggatz, C. C., Kenningham, N., & Bartels-Hardege, H. D. (2019). Taking Current Climate Change Research to the Classroom—The “Will Hermit Crabs Go Hungry in Future Oceans?” Project. In W. L. Filho, & S. L. Hemstock (Eds.), Climate Change and the Role of Education (255-277). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32898-6_15

Pheromone

Vaglio, S., Bartels-Hardege, H., & Hardege, J. (2018). Pheromone. In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (1-11). Cham: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_457-1

Journal Article

Bioassay complexities – exploring challenges in aquatic chemosensory research

Hardege, J., Fletcher, N., Burnett, J., Ohnstad, H., & Bartels-Hardege, H. (2024). Bioassay complexities – exploring challenges in aquatic chemosensory research. Frontiers in ecology and evolution, 11, Article 1293585. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1293585

A pheromone bouquet controls the reproductive behaviour of the male shore crab, Carcinus maenas

Fletcher, N., Terschak, J. A., Bartels-Hardege, H. D., Bublitz, R., Schirrmacher, P., & Hardege, J. D. (2022). A pheromone bouquet controls the reproductive behaviour of the male shore crab, Carcinus maenas. Aquatic ecology, 56, 419–427. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-021-09930-w

Behavioural stress propagation in benthic invertebrates caused by acute pH drop-induced metabolites

Feugere, L., Angell, L., Fagents, J., Nightingale, R., Rowland, K., Skinner, S., …Wollenberg Valero, K. C. (2021). Behavioural stress propagation in benthic invertebrates caused by acute pH drop-induced metabolites. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, Article 773870. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.773870

Research interests

I am a member of the Chemical Ecology research group. My background is the reproductive process of marine invertebrates, especially polychaete worms and their use of chemical signals, pheromones. We study the nature of chemical signals and their role in mate choice, kin recognition and reproductive isolation. Over the past years we have used our knowledge of animal signals to investigate the impacts of climate change, mainly ocean acidification (the reduction of pH through increased atmospheric carbon dioxide) upon marine life.

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Understanding ocean Acidification Impacts onChemical Communication in marine species — AcidIC

Funder

EC European Commission

Grant

£174,535.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Complete

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