The DICE Seminar Series is a long-running lecture series in which external speakers are invited to speak about their work or research to students, staff and alumni of the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE). Speakers tend to include conservation scientists, practitioners and policy-makers from all areas of conservation.
Due to the COVID pandemic, the series will be entirely online: whilst the DICE seminar series has provided prior opportunity for students to network with conservationists, the online format will allow DICE to increase the diversity of speakers, where attendees will hear from voices not based in the UK. Therefore, we are delighted to be joined by speakers from Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Uganda and USA.
Seminars take place on Thursdays between 16:00 and 17:00 via Microsoft Teams, and all students and staff from the School of Anthropology are welcome to attend.
- 1st Oct – Dr Inza Kone (Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire)
Transdisciplinarity and community empowerment for the conservation of Endangered monkeys in south-eastern Côte d’Ivoire
- 8th Oct – Dr Ruth Leeney (Independent researcher)
Saving sawfishes? How (or whether) to protect the world’s rarest fishes
- 15th Oct – Dr Alexandra Palmer (University of Oxford)
Out of the lab, into the field: social, ethical, and regulatory challenges in UK wildlife research
- 22nd Oct – Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (Conservation Through Public Health)
Mitigating COVID-19 through a ‘One Health’ approach to gorilla conservation
- 29th Oct – Dr David Gill (Duke University)
Triple exposure: supporting social equity and resilient communities through synergistic solutions
- 5th Nov – Dr Meredith Gore (University of Maryland)
How can conservation criminology enhance degrading human-environment relationships? Insights from Mexico to Madagascar
- 12th Nov – Dr Isabel Jones (University of Stirling)
Combining biodiversity and energy justice to resolve conflicts between Sustainable Development Goals
- 19th Nov – Professor Adam Hart (University of Gloucester)
Field courses, parachute research and “expedition experiences”: the good, the bad…and the neocolonial?
- 26th Nov – Dr Ricardo Rocha (University of Porto)
Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: How to avoid misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19?
- 3rd Dec – Dr Moacir Tinoco (Universidade Catolica do Salvador)
Conservation of the Atlantic Forest sand dune ecosystems: a priority herpetofauna hotspot in Bahia, Brazil
- 10th Dec – Dr Michelle Kalamandeen (University of Cambridge)
When a forest ends: forest loss and recovery in Amazonia