Fay Kahane
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PhD, biosciences
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I’m an ESRC funded PhD student, leading an interdisciplinary project spanning the natural and social sciences. With an academic background in biology and anthropology, and a professional background in UK ecology, I am exploring sustainability in beekeeping and pollination systems. With increasing interest in how different honeybee management practices can impact honeybees, crops, wild pollinators and landscapes, we will undertake a collaborative, solution-focussed exploration of what ‘sustainable beekeeping’ means, and how we can translate this into action. Using methods from across disciplines, we seek to understand different beekeeping knowledges, power dynamics around these knowledges, and epistemologies and value systems underpinning these knowledges, to explore what sustainable beekeeping looks like from a variety of human and nonhuman perspectives. Building a beekeeper-researcher-artist partnership, we will co-design, undertake and analyse ecological fieldwork, subsequently evaluating the 'successes' and 'failures' of the fieldwork and partnership - for bees, beekeepers and sustainability.
