A University of Westminster herbal medicine BSc graduate, with an MSc in Ethnobotany from the University of Kent. Niki works as a senior lecturer on the Herbal Course and she is also a practitioner supervisor in the University of Westminster Polyclinic. Niki previously worked as a nurse in Cape Town and helped manage a farm in the Klein Karoo in the Cape district of South Africa. She has a particular interest in ethnobotanical studies, organic cultivation, plant conservation and taxonomy and prostate disease treatments.