Convener of Ethnobotany programme and Director of Centre for Biocultural Diversity: an anthropologist and ethnobiologist who has worked largely in Indonesia: ethnobiological classification, food plants, homegardens, cognitive anthropology. More
Rajindra Puri
Convener of Environmental Anthropology programme and Managing Director of Centre for Biocultural Diversity: an anthropologist and ethnobiologist who has worked in Indonesia and Malaysia: forestry issues, climate change, applied ethnobiology, methodology. More
Anna Waldstein
Medical anthropologist specializing in medicinal plant use who has worked amolngst migrants in North America and Europe. More
Gary Martin
Director of Global Diversity Foundation and part-time lecturer at Kent: an ethnobotanist with a particular interest in outreach and applied issues who has undertaken fieldwork in Mexico, Malaysia and Morocco: biocultural diversity, community-based conservation. More
Mark Nesbitt
Ethnobotanist and economic botanist on Kew staff, with special responsibility for Kew MSc coordination: archaeobotany, grains and domestication are among his special interests. More
Monique Simmonds
Head of Jodrell Laboratory and Kew Sustainable Uses of Plants Group: medicinal plants, phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology. More
Botanist and ethnobotanist with special interest in Aloes. On the Kew staff, but a part-time teacher at Kent with a PhD from Reading. More
Peter Giovannini
Trained in ethnobotany at Kent with a PhD from the School of Pharmacy in London. Interests: Medical ethnobotany, ethnopharmacy, agrobiodiversity. Has worked in Mexico and Bolivia. More
Simon Platten
Anthropologist and ethnobotanist who is currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow: homegardens, agroecology, crop diversity and knowledge transmission, has worked in UK and Indonesias. More
Patricia Howard
Sociologist with special interest in gender issues in relation to plant knowledge and agricultural systems: Latin America, Ethiopia. On staff of Wageningen University, currently attached to Kent. More
Miguel Alexiades
Ethnobotanist and Research Fellow at Kent, with experience of the Amazon, plant resources, advocacy and ethical issues. More
James Wong
Ethnobotanist trained at Kent, has worked with Botanic Gardens International and in the media: particular interest in therapeutic plants, nutriceuticals and ornamentals. More
