Graduate program ethnobotany

Leigh deeply values the importance of getting out onto the land and learning in a hands-on way about culturally important plants and how they connect us to place. She is motivated to share this aspect of her own learning with the Indigenous communities that she works with.

His doctoral research focuses on studying the impact of socio-economic change, and particularly urbanisation, in Indonesia, on traditional local diets, knowledge and practices related to food. As part of his PhD research, David has conducted qualitative fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to study changes in dietary patterns over time, and to understand how and why traditional practices such as food selfproduction and sharing have persisted among local urban residents.

David's broader research interests relate to the interactions between human and natural ecosystems, and particularly the links between agricultural production systems, biodiversity resources, and the local indigenous knowledge associated with these. Josephine will use the SOE fellowship to host an open event to foster the exchange of experiences concerning traditional medicine and to strengthen management practices and preparation of medicinal plants.

His research centers on wetland restoration informed by both traditional ecological knowledge and restoration ecology in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. His overall interests are with freshwater ecosystems, ecological and biocultural restoration and climate change in Mesoamerica.

Her research seeks to understand how acculturation and cultural values affect ethnobotanical medical knowledge and practice in these communities. Amanda L. The Urban Ethnobiology Fellowship will support her doctoral research to examine how human niche construction, via cultural behaviors and ecological impacts, influence chacma baboon foraging and social relationships in Western Cape, South Africa. Nicole pursues her research interests in the intersections of ecology and colonialism at the University of Arizona and the Arizona State Museum.

For her PhD research, Nicole investigates how indigenous peoples in southern Arizona and northern Sonora negotiated the colonial introduction of livestock into their own preexisting practices of agriculture, hunting, and gathering. Her research will examine seasonal livestock grazing and watering in the Sonoran Desert using stable isotopes, and shifts in hunting patterns as a result of ranching by using zooarchaeological analysis. Funds from the Ecological Knowledge Research Fellowship will be used to conduct stable isotope analysis of cattle and sheep teeth from Spanish colonial sites.

Alex McAlvay is a Botany Ph. Eve Emshwiller's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He became he became passionate about traditional plant management while studying Biology and Anthropology at Western Washington University.

Since his undergraduate, he has worked to promote the continuity of traditional ecological knowledge with the Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts, Herbal Anthropology Project, Common River, and other non-profit organizations. The Ecological Knowledge Research Fellowship will support Alex's transportation, interviews, and herbarium collections in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla. His dissertation focuses on the formation of new ecological knowledge around introduced plants and the evolutionary implications of these new relationships for the plants.

Specifically, he studies the interactions between seven highland Mexican cultures and delicious introduced feral field mustard Brassica rapa. Full details of staff research interests can be found on the School's website. Since we have trained nearly students through our MSc Programme.

Some have gone on to work in universities or start their own organizations and businesses. This relationship ensures that successful completion of our courses is sufficient preparation for research in the various fields of social anthropology. Many of our students go on to do PhD research.

The School houses well-equipped research laboratories for genetics, ecology, visual anthropology, virtual paleoanthropology, Animal Postcranial Evolution, biological anthropology, anthropological computing, botany, osteology and ethnobiology. The state-of-the-art visual anthropology laboratory is stocked with digital editing programmes and other facilities for digital video and photographic work, and has a photographic darkroom for analogue developing and printing.

The biological anthropology laboratory is equipped for osteoarchaeological and forensic work. The ethnobiology laboratory provides equipment and specimens for teaching ethnobiological research skills, and serves as a transit station for receiving, examining and redirecting field material.

It also houses the Powell-Cotton collection of plant-based material culture from Southeast Asia, and a small reference and teaching collection of herbarium and spirit specimens 1, items arising from recent research projects. Kent has outstanding anthropology IT facilities. Over the last decade, the School has been associated with many innovatory projects, particularly in the field of cognitive anthropology.

It provides an electronic information service to other anthropology departments, for example by hosting both the Anthropological Index Online and Experience-Rich Anthropology project. We encourage all students to use the these facilities no previous experience or training is necessary.

Anthropology at Kent has close links with the nearby Powell-Cotton Museum, which has one of the largest ethnographic collections in the British Isles and is particularly strong in sub-Saharan African and Southeast Asian material.

It also houses an extensive comparative collection of primate and other mammalian material. All students registered for a taught Master's programme are eligible to apply for a place on our Global Skills Award Programme. The programme is designed to broaden your understanding of global issues and current affairs as well as to develop personal skills which will enhance your employability. Learn more about the applications process or begin your application by clicking on a link below.

School of Anthropology and Conservation. Jump to accessibility statement Jump to content. Ethnobotany - MSc Apply now Find out more. Choose a section. Book your place. Ethnobotany is quintessentially interdisciplinary, involving knowledge and use of plants and their ecology in the context of their cultural, social and economic significance. Overview Ethnobotany is the study of the interrelationship between people and plants, historically and cross-culturally, particularly the role of plants in human culture and practices, how humans have used and modified plants, and how they represent them in their systems of knowledge.

Why study with us? One-year Master's programme - excellent preparation for doctoral research and careers in a variety of botanical and environmental fields.

First programme of its kind in the world and only graduate course in UK and Europe. Study with the largest research group for Ethnobotany in Europe. Integrates field methods with theoretical perspectives; our students are conducting research in almost 40 countries. You are more than your grades For , in response to the challenges caused by Covid we will consider applicants either holding or projected a Contact us.

Entry requirements A first or second class honours degree in anthropology, botany, biology, environmental studies, environmental science, geography or similar. International students Please see our International Student website for entry requirements by country and other relevant information. English language entry requirements The University requires all non-native speakers of English to reach a minimum standard of proficiency in written and spoken English before beginning a postgraduate degree.

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Yes No. Please contact me by email or via social media with information about the courses available at the University of Kent, including information about relevant events, scholarships and other general information. Thank you for signing up. Take a virtual tour. Our student stories. Course structure Duration: One year full-time, two years part-time The MSc is an intensive month programme. Dissertation and fieldwork Students undertake intensive coursework between September and the end of March each academic year.

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Learning outcomes Knowledge and understanding You will gain knowledge and understanding of: ethnobotany as the comparative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between people and plants specific themes in ethnobotany eg plant conservation, medical ethnobotany, ethnobotanical knowledge systems cultural and biological diversity and an appreciation of its scope several ethnographic regions of the world including north Africa, South America. South Asia and Southeast Asia in particular Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines the history of the development of ethnobotany as a subject the variety of theoretical approaches contained within the subject the processes of biological and social change the application of ethnobotany to understanding issues of sustainable social and economic development and environmental conservation throughout the world the relevance of ethnobotany to understanding everyday processes of plant-human interaction anywhere in the world.

Intellectual skills You develop intellectual skills in: general learning and study skills critical and analytical skills expression of ideas both orally and in written form communication skills groupwork skills computing skills reviewing and summarising information data retrieval ability.

Subject-specific skills You gain subject-specific skills in: understanding how people are shaped by their social, cultural and physical environments while nonetheless possessing a capacity for individual agency which can allow them to transcend some environmental constraints recognising the pertinence of an ethnobotanical perspective to understanding major national and international events.

Transferable skills You will gain the following transferable skills: making a structured argument the ability to make appropriate reference to scholarly data time-management skills the use of information technology including computers and library research groupwork handling audio-visual equipment independent research presentation skills the ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility have the independent learning ability required for continuing professional development.

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