Mark Nesbitt

Research into useful plants informed by Kew's collections, science strategy and heritage. Research portfolio includes plant fibres (barkcloth, textiles, basketry), medicinal plants and the history of useful plants and botanical institutions in the last 200 years. Strong collaborative links with universities, including AHRC-funded research projects with the University of Glasgow, and Royal Holloway, and Newton-funded work with Birkbeck College. I carry out postgraduate teaching with these, and Camberwell, University of the Arts, the Royal College of Art, and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Curation of the Economic Botany Collection, including managing acquisitions, conservation, loans, sampling and hosting of researchers. 

• BSc, Agricultural Botany, Univ. Reading, 1983.
• MSc, Bioarchaeology, Univ. London, 1984.
• PhD, Univ. College London, 1997.
• Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
• Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent.
• Editorial Board, Pharmaceutical Historian.
• Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine.
• Committee, British Society for the History of Pharmacy.
• Honorary Research Fellow, Art History, University of Glasgow.
• Fellow of the Linnean Society