Barbara Ingeborg Patricia Barratt is a New Zealand entomologist and biocontrol expert.
Barratt was born in England and has recalled that an interest in science was influenced by her father and a teacher who took her on nature walks to collect "creepy crawlies".
[1] She completed her PhD at Durham University in 1975, with a thesis on the sex pheromones of the drugstore beetle.
[5] Her nomination, written by Stephen Goldson and Rod Emberson, noted her pioneering biocontrol work, but also her contribution to the understanding of the impacts of agriculture and fire on native grassland ecosystems.
A key example of impact is Barratt’s contribution to the identification and biosafety assessment of a parasitoid wasp for biocontrol of clover root weevil.