Category: CBCD

Zerihun Doffana successfully defended his doctoral thesis on March 30th: entitled ‘Dagucho [P. Falcatus] Is Abbo!’ Sacred Groves Of Wonsho-Sidama, Ethiopia: Their Maintenance Motives, Consequences and … Read more

CBCD staff and students participated in an Ethnobotanical Research Methods field school as part of the MEDPLANT Marie Curie ITN in Morocco in September 2014. … Read more

The School of Anthropology and Conservation, in partnership with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has launched an international 3-day symposium: Repositioning The Social … Read more

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), in partnership with the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD), has launched … Read more

Huge congratulations go to Jennie Martin who has recently won the Environment Award for the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland 2014. Jennie studied at SAC for … Read more

Plants. Animals. Words. is a workshop designed to encourage interdisciplinary research in the areas of linguistics and ethnobiology by bringing together researchers from these fields … Read more

May 16th Plenary session, 17:15pm to 19pm Is there a role for ontologies in understanding ‘plant knowledge systems’? – Professor Roy Ellen, University of Kent … Read more

SAC and the CBCD had a significant contigent at the recent UNESCO-CBD conference on Biocultural Diversity in Florence, 8-11 April. Postdoc Pablo Dominguez, PhD alumni … Read more

CBCD Director, Raj Puri, participated in the kick-off meeting of the MEDPLANT Initial Training Network, an EU Marie Curie Action, in Copenhagen on March 24-25th. … Read more

Clive Dennis (alumni of Kent’s Environmental Anthropology Masters Programme and PhD candidate in Ethnobiology) joins the CBCD as a Visiting Training Scholar from March – … Read more