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The items below give you some indication as to the range of activities going on in the School. For further information read our newsletter which comes out fortnightly during term time.
The school welcomes Omani field biologist Hadi Al-Hikmani who will be working in the conservation genetics laboratory during a month-long research visit this May. Hadi is a Kent graduate and has been working with Jim Groombridge, Simon Black and Simon Tollington on the conservation genetics of the Arabian leopard. Hadis camera trap work in the Dhofar mountains featured as a centrepiece in recent BBC series Wild Arabia More
We are delighted to announce that the book, 'Integrating Religion within Conservation: Islamic Beliefs and Sumatran Forest Management' has been published and is now available to download for FREE! The book draws together the research undertaken through the Darwin Initiative project led by DICE's Jeanne McKay and includes contributions from Jeanne McKay and Stuart Harrop. Read more about the project: http://www.kent.ac.uk/sa... More
The Whitley Awards celebrate 20 yearsof global conservation achievements HRH The Princess Royal yesterday (Thursday 2nd May) presented a Whitley Award, a prestigious international nature conservation prize, to Daniel Lejaroi Letoiye at a special ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society in honour of his work to restore grasslands for the coexistence of Grevys Zebra and free-ranging livestock in Kenya. Dan is studying MSc Conservation and Rural Development i... More
Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos has had has paper, 'Infuriated with the Infuriated? Blaming Tactics and Discontent about the Greek Financial Crisis' published in Current Anthropology. Current Anthropology explores Greek indignation with economic austerity in the general context of the recent financial crisis. It focuses on local indignant views as these were expressed during the protest movement of 2011, but also, on the views of Greek citizens who did not part... More
Prof Douglas MacMillan of DICE in the School of Anthropology and Conservation has been awarded 13, 016 from the ESRC to develop an international research group involving the University of Kent and 2 of Chinas leading Universities; Beijing Forestry University and Peking University. The aim is to promote innovative interdisciplinary doctoral research by enabling doctoral students to participate alongside staff in new and developing global alliances and collabo... More