Author: jsh31

Forty years of international environmental policy: has it made a difference? A personal perspective Tonight Stanley Johnson will be delivering the Annual DICE in celebration … Read more

The School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) are delighted to announce the launch of a new programme, BSc (Hons) Human Ecology which is recruiting students … Read more

The University of Kent has been awarded 177 postgraduate bursaries of £10,000 for students admitted to taught Master’s degree programmes at Kent in September 2015. … Read more

New research suggests pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought. Anthropologists from the University of Kent, … Read more

Despite the fact that many of Borneo’s rare species are in trouble new research published in the journal Current Biology shows that by using targeted … Read more

SAC alumus Mark Rayan Darmarj and Dr Matthew Linkie have recently published in Biological Conservation. Their paper ‘Conserving tigers in Malaysia: A science-driven approach for … Read more

Prof Richard Griffiths (DICE/School of Anthropology & Conservation) helps review the success of mitigation driven animal translocations around the world. For many years the use … Read more

These two papers respond to the larger theoretical issues being debated in Social Anthropology at present.  The research deals with the relationship between person-hood and … Read more

However, new research has also identified up to 42,000km2 of land that could serve as potential orang-utan refuges on the island, and could be relatively safe new … Read more

The School of Anthropology and Conservation are delighted to be ranked 10th for research power within the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. The REF 2014 … Read more