Henry Bennet-Clark

Emeritus Fellow and Reader Emeritus in Invertebrate Zoology.

Henry Bennet-Clark was Fellow and Tutor in Zoology from 1978 to 1999 and was University lecturer in Invertebrate Zoology from 1976 to 1999; formerly he was a lecturer in Zoology in the University of Edinburgh. He was Dean from 1984 to 1988 and from 2004 to 2007. His teaching, both lectures and tutorials, has covered the whole of the animal kingdom, with special emphasis on the biology of invertebrate animals. His research has concentrated in biomechanics and bioacoustics, particularly with insects where he has studied the mechanisms by which small insects jump using catapults and how such noisy insects as cicadas and crickets generate their characteristic, often noisy, songs.