Category: People

Biologist interested in botany and biodiversity.  -Visiting Professor in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at University of Bedfordshire, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, The Open University; Science Expedition Leader with the British Exploring Society BA Natural Sciences Cambridge; MSC Biodiversity and Conservation, Trinity UC D; PhD from Trinity College Dublin, PCSE Science (Biology) Cambridge; Extensive Boating…

John Grigsby is a Lecturer in the fields of history, archaeology and mythology, and author of Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England’s Oldest Legend (2005). He received his Ph.D on ‘Skyscapes, Landscapes and the Drama of Proto-indo-European Myth’ from Bournemouth University in 2018.

Prof Sian Sullivan an environmental anthropologist, cultural geographer and political ecologist concerned to better understand diversity in cultural understandings and representations of the natural world, amidst concern over climate change and species decline. She is particularly interested in intersections and frictions between cultural, natural history and economic values as these relate to beyond-human natures.

Louise Raw is an activist historian; and thinks all historians should be.

Raj Puri is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology, University of Kent, Director of the Centre for Biocultural Diversity and Course Convenor of MSc Ethnobotany

Paul Powlesland is a rights of Nature and climate activist, barrister and River guardian.

Heide Goettner-Abendroth is a mother and a grandmother. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy of science at the University of Munich where she lectured for ten years (1973-1983).

Associate Professor of Landscape History, University of Leicester.

Gabriella Kountourides is a DPhil student in biological anthropology and uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the menstrual cycle, drawing on both anthropological and immunological explanations. She began her academic career studying zoology at the University of Leeds and did her masters in human evolution and behaviour at UCL. She then worked as a science…

Dr Helen Cornish is an anthropologist at Goldsmiths College interested in the practices and politics of history-making and how these are navigated through official and informal sources, including the imagination. My research has focused on how modern witches and Wiccans in the UK have navigated challenges to claims about the past, and one key site has been…