{"id":2571,"date":"2018-05-14T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:03:09","slug":"professor-roy-ellen-awarded-leverhulme-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/05\/14\/professor-roy-ellen-awarded-leverhulme-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Roy Ellen awarded Leverhulme Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/emeritus\/ellen_roy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roy Ellen<\/a> has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship for a project titled \u201cNuaulu ethnobotanical cognition and knowledge (Seram, eastern Indonesia).&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The grant, to the amount of \u00a313,469, is due to start in August 2018 and will last for two years. It will allow Professor Ellen to complete a large monograph on the subject of ethnobotanical cognition, knowledge and practice among the Nuaulu of Seram, eastern Indonesia. This work \u2013 the culmination of Professor Ellen\u2019s last 50 years of academic research \u2013 also endeavours to re-appraise how ethnobotanical classification works, addressing some of the problems associated with the received models by emphasising much more intra-cultural variation, the difficulties of simple claims for universality versus relativity, of cultural models versus individual contextual schemata, and of the two-dimensional taxonomic model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Roy Ellen has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship for a project titled \u201cNuaulu ethnobotanical cognition and knowledge (Seram, eastern Indonesia).&#8217; The grant, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/05\/14\/professor-roy-ellen-awarded-leverhulme-fellowship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}