The foundation for good teaching is world-class research, and we are a strongly research-active school. In the 2008 Research Assessment Evaluation 80 percent of Kent Anthropologists' research reached the standard of International quality and significance. A quarter of this is designated as 'World Leading', as is the great majority of our research environment, an excellent result in University terms. This represents an improvement of nearly 100% in the proportion of our research ranked as 'International' quality over the 2001 RAE in which we also received a high rating (5).
Our research activities are organised through our five research groups:
We maintain two weekly research seminars, in anthropology and in biodiversity management, and our staff regularly present at national and international conferences.
Grants: consolidated list for research groups in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Biological Anthropology, and Computational Anthropology and Methodology.
Social and Cultural Anthropology Glenn Bowman, Bruce Connell, Melissa Demian, Roy Ellen, Michael Fischer, Roger Just, Peter Parkes, Daniela Peluso, Mike Poltorak, Anna Waldstein, Bill Watson, David Zeitlyn
Honorary positions: Cameron Adams, Mary Adams, Nevill Colclough, Jerry Eades, Chris Hann, Wenonah Lyon, Italo Pardo, Giuliana Prato, Jonathan Renshaw, Rob Veltman
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Roy Ellen, Stefanie Belharte (formerly Klappa), Axel Klein, Gary Martin, Simon Platten, Raj Puri, Sonia Vougioukalou, Anna Waldstein
Honorary positions: Miguel Alexiades, Michael Heinrich, Tom Henfrey, Patricia Howard, Christin Kocher Schmid, Mark Nesbitt, Dario Novellino, Diana Pritchard, John Kesby
Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Management Peter Bennett, Richard Bodmer, Ian Bride, Arnaud Desbiez, Richard Griffiths, Jim Groombridge, Stuart Harrop, Douglas MacMillan, Helen Newing, Dave Roberts, Bob Smith
