Ballot Archive

13 Feb 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Philippa Ryan

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA History, Oxford; Postgraduate Diploma Courtauld Institute of Art, MA & PhD UCL Institute of Archaeology

Profession or occupation

Archaeologist and Environmental Scientist

Grounds for election

Dr Philippa Ryan has been a Research Fellow in Economic Botany since autumn 2018 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Her current research focuses on looking at long term agricultural change in semi-arid lands, especially north-east Africa. Her research also has an emphasis on connecting archaeology with present-day interdisciplinary debates surrounding sustainability and food security, as well as on the dissemination of results to wide-ranging audiences including local communities. Prior to Kew, she worked at the British Museum in the Department of Scientific Research as an archaeobotanist. There, she was Principal Investigator for two Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research projects: ‘Sustainability and subsistence systems in a changing Sudan’ (2013-2016), and ‘Nubian traditional knowledge and agricultural resilience; crop choices and endangered cultural heritage’ (2017 -2018). Philippa has carried out Environmental Archaeological research in Turkey and Sudan.

Signatories

The following Fellows have signed this Blue Paper