Caroline is the Director of the Ingraham Academy of Zoopharmacognosy. She has been studying aromatic plant extracts and their symbiotic relationship to animals for over 25 years, founding the first school of Animal Aromatics in 1995. Her work is constantly evolving as she researches the use of essential oils, macerates and other natural substances, which has taken the school into the new and respected science of zoopharmacognosy.
Caroline's work has attracted increasing media attention, and she has featured on many television documentaries such as National Geographic and David Bellamy productions. She has appeared on ITV's "Talking to Animals" and on Radio 4 talking on Animal Self Selection. Articles in publications have also featured her work. Caroline's books, 'Aromatherapy for Horses', and the 'The Animal Aromatics Workbook' have become a must for those interested in enhancing an animals health and environment.
Her work with animals is internationally acknowledged and she is in demand as a speaker for professional bodies. Caroline has worked with a variety of species of animals both in the UK and abroad, including companion animals, farm, tigers, elephants, and reptiles. Her international reputation has grown through successes such as with Sinya, a young African Elephant calf in Kenya, with whom Caroline worked on large, infected wounds and possible Klebsiella pneumoniae. Read article
Thomas Ingraham was a scholar at University College London and earned his BSc in Biology in 2009. He has written both the pharmacology of secondary metabolites and botany modules and holds tutorials twice a year. He is currently interested in possible biological mechanisms that could account for self-medicative behaviour, including the neurobiology of motivation and the ascending information of internal body states.
Rhiannon and Bob Harris studied French medical aromatherapy whilst living in France for the past eight years. Rhiannon, formerly a senior nurse, qualified in the UK, worked as a clinical aromatherapist operating three busy practices in close association with local doctors. She teachs both holistic and clinical essential oil science for leading colleges both in the UK and abroad and has undertaken further advanced studies in essential oils at Purdue University, Indiana. Rhiannion has a teaching qualification.
Bob, with his background of medical microbiology, has always been interested in the scientific aspect of essential oils. In 1993 he published The Essential Oil Resource, the leading research source concerning the properties of essential oils. He is a member of the Institute of Biomedical Science. In mid-2000, Bob replaced Robert Tisserand as the scintific editor of the International Journal of Aromatherapy. This is the longest running scientific, peer reviewed professional aromatherapy publication in the world. Bob is also Director of Education and Director of Aromatic Herbal Medicine for the College of Botanical Medicine, which will provide the first ever BSc Degree course in Aromatic Medicine.
