Kent’s Ethnobotany Masters programme has developed exchanges with SOAS’s Endangered Languages Archive and UCL’s School of Pharmacy to enhance learning and widen CBCD’s network of research and training in interdisciplinary programmes in human-environment relationships.
Dr Candide Simade and her colleagues at SOAS provide field linguistics and language documentation training to Kent’s students, while Dr. Raj Puri at Kent has provided plant identification and ethnobotanical knowledge collection training for SOAS’s Liguistics staff and students. This collaboration derives from the Plants, Animals, Words workshop held at SOAS in September 2013, with the second workshop to be held in Kent in October 2014.
Professor Michael Heinrich at School of Pharmacy organized a day of lectures and discussions for Kent Ethnobotany and UCL Pharmacognosy students on Bringing herbal medicines to market at UCL, which was followed up by a return day in Canterbury on Medical Anthropology and Ethnobotany, including an ethnobotanical market survey in Canterbury City Centre.
