Understanding A Changing World is literally what we endeavour to do every day at SAC, it also happens to be our school motto. We explore some of what this means in our February RoundUp as we come out of a global pandemic, but always with an eye on the wider planet we inhabit.
Understanding a Changing World
- We recently asked our Head of School Dr Tatyana Humle and Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem about life in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent. Read Tatyana and Jonathan’s responses.
The proper University experience
- Stage 3 Human Geography student, Rio Finch, has studied through the global pandemic, he gives a personal insight into his university life since joining the University of Kent. Read here.
Worrying signs of a poaching resurgence
- On 8 February, South Africa’s Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, announced the country’s latest rhino poaching figures, with 451 rhinos killed for their horns in 2021. Professor Keith Somerville of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology gives his expert comment.
Have you lost your raving stamina?
- Dr Martha Newson‘s research was cited in a feature of the premiere UK dance music magazine Mixmag, about how we have lost our post pandemic energy levels for dancing and socialising. Read the piece here.
Listening out for bats
- PhD student Natalie Yoh’s research focuses on how bats in Malaysian Borneo are impacted by land-use change, particularly by the use of bioacoustics. The new paper is out this week in Ecological Indicators “A machine learning framework to classify Southeast Asian echolocating bats”. She tells us about it here.
Looking forward…
- Jerika Loren Heinze, the founder of Fieldwork Initiative, will be joining us for a workshop for PG students and PG supervisors on Wednesday 16th March from 3-5pm discussing ‘Women in Conservation: Keeping Safe in The Field.’ Join here.
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