The Centre for Biocultural Diversity is delighted to announce the Spring term programme of guest lectures and seminars. View the Spring term programme

CBCD General Meeting Date: Wednesday October 23rd Location: Stirling library, School of Anthropology and Conservation, Marlowe Building, The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NR … Read more

Ethnobotany MSc student Emma Cooper has won a competition by writing an entry for the Encyclopedia of LIfe on Origanum syriacum, Syrian oregano, or Bible Hyssop. Her prize is … Read more

Nejm Benessaiah, a second year PhD student in Ethnobiology, has won a research award from the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Emslie Horniman Fund, to support his … Read more

More than 20 staff, students and alumni of Kent’s Ethnobotany programme attended the 54th Annual Conference of the Society of Economic Botany in Plymouth June 27-July 2nd, … Read more

Doctoral students in Environmental Anthropology at SAC, Saskia Dijk, Gotzone Garay and Oana Ivan, all graduated in July 2013. Saskia is now a Research Fellow … Read more

Dr Pablo Eyzaguirra, Senior Scientist at Bioversity International in Rome, will be our Distinguished Ethnobotanist at our Annual Kent-Kew Lecture at Kew in October 2013.

At the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, we are welcoming environmental anthropologist Prof. Rufino Acosta from the University of Seville, who will be here all summer … Read more

New Ethnobotany lecturer Dr Ros Bennett is going to join us on staff, and teach our Introduction to Botanical Ethnobotany module. She is a very … Read more

Principal Investigator: Professor Roy Ellen