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OK, thank you folks, points taken, I think I will gracefully retreat at this point :)! Thanks for your time/interest nevertheless, appreciated.

I can understand the concerns being expresses here, but please understand that I am not talking about defining, regulating, standardising or 'imposing' anything. I am simply someone who, as a bushcraft practitioner and educator for the past 18 years, and more recently an academic, thought...

Hi Dave, apologies but I dont have much time to respond fully right now, but just to say that I will, just as soon as I can. Wayland, thats great that your pictures improved once you felt you stopped talking BS about them, but not sure that this reflects the whole of the academic experience...

Thanks guys and thanks Bowji John. I agree with you, but NVQ development is not my area of expertise, although John Rhyder is a close and valued colleague and his courses are excellent. We worked together in the trenches many years ago when we both worked for Ray Mears for several years, and...

:)...sounds like a fine plan! Thanks guys!

Thank you Toddy :)! Hope you are well!

Dear All, I hope it's ok to post this here. I am conducting a very brief 2-minute survey to ask whether there would be interest from the international bushcraft (and related) communities in postgraduate level academic qualification in ‘Bushcraft Studies’. This includes a...

Thanks all, some really interesting comments and Firelite, that is not rambling, that is perfect...now if you want rambling you should see the awful state of my work thus far ;)!! Toddy, yes I has wondered too. To be honest I have never felt that motivated to learn it, perhaps put off by...

Hey Guys, thanks, this is actually really useful to hear that you haven't tried it or havent been successful....it would be good to hear why, on both counts, too? A rough hypothesis being that the hand drill is more difficult to achieve that the bow drill? Do folks generally agree with that...

Hi All, I am posting to ask a big favour. I am would be so grateful if some of you folks here might help me with some PhD research I am conducting about bushcraft. The research looks at the relationship between bushcraft and indigenous knowledge, and the meaning of bushcraft in the modern...

Hey Brian...thanks! Will definitely want to interview you at the BC show :) Hey Santaman2000...yes I guess I did rather assume that!? Interestingly, the survey is showing that most folks (in the UK) were influenced by experiences in Nature in early childhood, and 'took up' bushcraft later...

Thats great...keep them coming :)! Yes, they do get a bit more tricky Steffan, but its sounds like you had a good bash at most of it, which os great. I am pretty sure my supervisors would have said that it's a bad questionnaire design and folks wont go to the lengths I am asking, but people are...

Thanks John :)...might be able to make it 13-15th, which would be great?? And thanks again to you all for participating, nearly 300 responses now! I know its a bit long for a survey, but couldn't help myself...so many more questions I would love to ask :)! Just re-interate (as quite a few are...

Hmmm...stats..not my stronest point!!:( John...was really hoping to get to the moot, but so far it clashes with childcare issues. However, I will have another look at dates/possibilities as it would be great to go, both personally anf for research :)!

Yes! I will post the results sometime in September. I also think it will be interesting for everyone to see :)

Thanks All... So much appreciated :)! ...and John, so do I! I have conducted fieldwork and interviews in the USA and Sweden, and will focus on the UK this summer. I have done quite a few, but lots more to do...so if ur up for an interview, either in person or on skype, it would be great to hear...

Hmmm, apart from it informing parts of the thesis?..I have no idea! All I can see right now is the mountain that is the writing-up year of a PhD, while raising a 2 year old :)! But I am sure ideas will formulate as to where it might lead? :)

Thanks a million Elen :). I put it on our FB page and had over 200 responses is 24 hours! I am so excited, as I was hoping for around that number in 2 months! I hope it becomes a really big survey, as I think it will be so interesting for everyone involved in bushcraft, and to see the importance...

Dear Bushcrafters, Lisa from Woodsmoke here with a big ask! And a chance to win a Woodsmoke course :) Below is a link to my Bushcraft Survey. It is a global survey, which I have designed to collect information for my Ethnobiology PhD research into 'bushcraft' and 'indigenous knowledge'. As...

Really great thread! Thanks for this wealth of fascinating insight Martti :-) Lisa