The £1 million investment in the School’s facilities is nearing completion, and we are asking SAC students to put forward suggestions for the names of … Read more
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Roy Ellen to deliver the Annual Kent-Kew Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture 2017
Kent’s own Emeritus Professor Roy Ellen, FBA will be delivering a talk entitled ‘In the footsteps of Rumphius: history and ethnobotanical entanglements in the spice … Read more
Dr Ameline Bardo welcomed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The School of Anthropology & Conservation is delighted to welcome Dr Ameline Bardo, who is visiting us until September 2019. Whilst she is here, Ameline will be working … Read more
DICE alumnus leads new research on forest fire pollution and its effects on wildlife
Forest fires in South East Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the biodiversity of the region due to the smoke-induced ‘haze’ … Read more
Dr Eduardo Garcia-Frapolli welcomed as Visiting Researcher
The School of Anthropology & Conservation is delighted to welcome Dr Eduardo Garcia-Frapolli from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who is visiting us until August of … Read more
DICE PhD student discovers new frog species
Izabela Menezes-Barata has discovered a new frog species in Brazil. The species was discovered whilst searching for new populations of the endangered frog Crossodactylodes itambe in the … Read more
Dr Megan Barnes welcomed as an International Academic Visitor
The School of Anthropology and Conservation is delighted to welcome Dr Megan Barnes from the University of Hawaii and the University of Queensland, who is … Read more
DICE alumnus Dr Jim Labisko reports from the Evolution 2017 conference
After receiving a £500 Early Career MRSB Grant from the Royal Society of Biology, Dr Jim Labisko attended Evolution 2017 in Portland, Oregon in June … Read more
DICE PhD student Andrew Buxton on Great Crested Newt eDNA
Andrew Buxton has published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE entitled Is the detection of aquatic environmental DNA influenced by substrate type?, co-authored by … Read more
PhD student wins the 2017 Richard Evans Schultes Research Award
Ashley Glenn, currently doing her PhD in Ethnobiology, has won this year’s Richard E. Schultes Award from the Society for Economic Botany, to support her research … Read more