Research Programmes Administrator Lucy Wilson’s work is celebrated with this prize. The Graduate and Researcher College have announced this year’s winners of the Graduate and … Read more
Author: Grace Shore Banks
Have wildlife documentaries gone too far?
Professor Keith Somerville takes part in an online discussion about the soap-opera-izing of wildlife documentaries. From Meerkat Manor to Dynasties, big nature documentaries seem to … Read more
Announcing the DICE Twitter Conference 2021
This now, annual event will be showcasing the work of all DICE students, staff, Advisory Board members, Honorary and Associate members and alumni. After last … Read more
Writing Ethnography: In conversation with Carole McGranahan and Leyla Neyzi
Join this seminar on writing as an experience and creative practise with these two accomplished ethnographers and writers. Ethnographic writing can be creative, reflexive, transformative, … Read more
Changing landscape: Elephant crop raiding in Kenya’s Masai Mara
Lydia Tiller and Bob Smith co author a piece for The Conversation Africa on human-elephant conflict in Kenya. Dr Lydia Tiller, Research and Science Manager … Read more
When to rescue orangutans, and other conservation dilemmas.
The DICE Lecture is an annual public event given each year by a distinguished scientist or practitioner on an important conservation topic. Master’s student Isobel … Read more
People’s Assembly on Aviation aimed to get SAC walking the walk.
After the School’s Declaration of a Climate and Ecological Emergency in 2019, we are committed to lead the way in action not just words. The … Read more
Phallus for Sale
‘The beautiful thing about an Anthropology degree, anything to do will humans is a viable writing topic’. Nerys Bushnell blogs about writing her Stage 3 … Read more
Usage of sand worldwide presents critical sustainability implications
New research co-authored by Sophus zu Ermgassen, a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), has highlighted the sustainability implications of the use … Read more
Towards Urban Geopolitics of Encounter: Spatial Mixing in Contested Jerusalem
During these dark times in Jerusalem and the wider Israeli Palestinian conflict, this new paper from Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem sheds some hope for a … Read more