An interesting upcoming symposium!
> We are writing to invite you and/or students and staff from your department to attend our event, Traditional Herbal Knowledge in the 21st Century: Research, Challenges and Future Prospects, to be held at UCL School of Pharmacy on September 18th 2017, 9.30-17.30. This is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium and workshop funded by UCL Grand Challenges (poster attached).
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> The workshop will examine the relevance of traditional herbal knowledge in the 21st century and explore future possibilities for use and research, as well as encouraging public awareness of traditional herbal medicines, based on WHO’s strategic goal of 'harnessing the potential contribution of traditional and complementary medicines (T&CM) to health, wellness and people- centred health care and…the safe and effective use of T&CM.' It aims to have an applied focus, and to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration by drawing on approaches from both the natural and social sciences, including Pharmacy, Plant Sciences, Bioengineering, Anthropology, Ethnobotany and History. Through a variety of activities, we hope that students and researchers will have a chance to experience different perspectives and methodologies in research, and to discuss current challenges and ideas.
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> The day will include leading herbal medicine researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds speaking about their research, lunchtime ‘round-table’ discussion sessions, a debate on the future of herbal medicines in Europe, and practical research methodology workshops. We welcome both undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as practitioners, and will be running a poster session in order for students to present their own research. We would especially like to target the new cohort of MSc students beginning in the autumn term, and would be grateful if you could circulate this email and the attached poster to the relevant mailing lists or administrator.
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> Advance registration is required via UCL event ticketing (£3 UCL students, £5 all others), lunch, tea & coffee included: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/event-ticketing/booking/?ev=17023. There are limited places for the research methodology workshops in pharmacy and ethnobotany/anthropology: the aim is for students to attend a workshop in a discipline which is unfamiliar to them.
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> If there are any questions, please contact us at [log in to unmask]
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> Abstracts for poster presentations should be submitted by September 1 to [log in to unmask]
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> Many thanks,
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> Elizabeth Elliott (PhD candidate, UCL Anthropology) & Kum Ka Yui (PhD candidate, UCL Pharmacy).
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