Fay Kahane
Postgraduate Researcher
Politics at Penryn
With an academic background in biology, anthropology, and human geography, alongside 20 years professional experience in UK ecology, I am now working with UK beekeepers on an ESRC-funded PhD project spanning ecology and politics.
Our place-based research partnership is undertaking ecological and social fieldwork to investigate what ‘sustainable beekeeping’ means. Using rigorous, transparent, mixed methods to characterise diverse beekeeping perspectives (published), we are now investigating 'pathways to sustinable beekeeping' to guide equitable, pragmatic options for pluralist beekeeping policies and practice.
Dr Karen Scott (politics), prof Juliet Osborne (pollination ecologist), prof Stefano Pascucci (business studies) and Dr Christoph Grueter (Behavioural Ecologist & beekeeper at the University of Bristol) supervise this project.