Dr. Boyd is a botany lecturer and researcher in the Life Sciences Department, FST, UWI. His academic interests centre on plant biology, autotrophic eukaryotic microorganisms and their anthropogenic applications. For example, his earned his M.Phil. for his work on incorporating Cyanobacteria as biofertilizers for local rice cultivation, which focused on the successful reduction of artificial fertilizer usage and his PhD in Botany in 2018 increased knowledge of the reproductive ecology of Jamaican Allspice (Pimenta dioica) and important export species.