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British Science Festival 2025: The Power of Art-Science Approaches for Botany Public Engagement
Are you aware that many medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, or know how to make a herbarium sheet; a historical record and a reference tool to study and identify plants, providing information on biodiversity, taxonomy, and evolution? For the British Science Festival 2025 in Liverpool, LJMU Postgraduate Researcher and VC Scholarship recipient, Samantha Cooper, aka ‘Mindful Garden ’ delivered three interactive "Medicinal and Mindful" workshops linked to her PhD resear
Samantha Rose Cooper
Nov 172 min read


Discovering Hidden Collections: My Favourite Collections at the World Museum's Botany Collection
The World Museum's botany collection contains a vast number of botanical items that often go unnoticed by the public. It is estimated...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 19, 20242 min read


Research Visit: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Tour
As part of my research, I booked a visit to the Herbarium and Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as a...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 19, 20243 min read


An Inspiring Visit: The Lord Mayor Explores 'The Speculative Herbarium'
What an incredible Private View as Suzanne Grace from Wild Art and I welcomed the Liverpool Lord Mayor ( Richard Kemp) to see our...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 7, 20241 min read
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