Category: News

In 2013, the Social Anthropology Seminar Series held throughout each semester within the School of Anthropology and Conservation organised a series of conferences dedicated to … Read more

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has arranged to showcase the research of its students, academics and alumni via Twitter from 23-24 July … Read more

The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has welcomed the news that a small herd of wild bison will be released in Blean, Kent … Read more

The Global Informality Project headed by Alena Ledeneva, Professor of Politics and Society at UCL, explores society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly … Read more

New research from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) suggests that coconut oil production may be more harmful to the environment than palm … Read more

This April, the School of Anthropology and Conservation launched a student-led social media campaign called #windowsintowildlife. While lockdown measures saw us staying inside a lot more than … Read more

Professor Keith Somerville, a conservationist at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), has commented on the fact that, since March 2020, over 400 carcasses … Read more

The tail-end of June marks three months of lockdown, although measures have started to ease up slightly across the country. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the … Read more

The University has been awarded £250k from The Wolfson Foundation towards the cost of equipping a new Imaging Centre for the Life Sciences in the … Read more

In 2017, Professor of Social Anthropology, João Pina-Cabral, published a book called World: An Anthropological Examination (HAU Books: University of Chicago Press). The book explores the … Read more