Come and join us for our series of guest lectures and seminars throughout the Spring term. View the Spring term programme

A new academic year at Kent, and the CBCD is growing and changing! First, founding Director Professor Roy Ellen retired as of October 1st. He … Read more

Dr Gary Martin (Director, Global Diversity Foundation and Rachel Carson Centre Fellow) will give the 13th Annual Kew-Kent Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture at Kew Gardens in … Read more

The CBCD welcomes Kent’s newest research students doing PhDs in Ethnobiology, Environmental Anthropology and Conservation: Kay E. W. Jones: The Millennium Seed Bank and Seeds … Read more

Congratulations to the following School doctoral candidates who successfully completed their doctoral degrees this year! We wish them all a welcome rest and a chance … Read more

Earlier this year we were pleased to welcome Francisco Zorondo-Rodrígue (UAB) to the CBCD to complete part of his PhD with Dr Raj Puri. Francisco … 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

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 … Read more

Dr Dario Novellino, PhD in environmental anthropology at Kent and Research Fellow in the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, has won the very prestigious Darrell Posey … Read more