Category: Research

Dr Elizabeth Hallam has been awarded the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems for her book Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed … Read more

A convent of Mexican nuns is helping to save the one of the world’s most endangered and most remarkable amphibians: the axolotl, a truly bizarre … Read more

The British Ecological Society (BES), in partnership with its publisher John Wiley & Sons, has announced the launch of a new international journal. People and … Read more

Professor Roy Ellen has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship for a project titled “Nuaulu ethnobotanical cognition and knowledge (Seram, eastern Indonesia).’ The grant, … Read more

Honorary members Dr Italo Pardo and Dr Giuliana Prato have published and edited Urban Ethnographers Debate Legitimacy, a special issue published as Supplement 1 to Volume … Read more

Dr Jake Bicknell and Dr Matthew Struebig from DICE explain why the decision, while positive at first glance, could have unintended consequences: “Iceland’s move to … Read more

On the Saturday afternoon of 23 June 2018 (13:00-16:00), Canterbury’s Westgate Gardens will host its FIRST Soapbox Science event!  This event brings together the general … Read more

Huge congratulations to Dr Lydia Tiller who successfully passed her viva voce after being a research student at DICE for the past four years. Her … Read more

Dr Brandon Wheeler has secured a grant of $7,500 from the AAPA (American Association of Physical Anthropologists) under their Cobb Professional Development scheme. It is … Read more

Archie Carr is thought of in the turtle community as the grandfather of sea turtle research. He was the first person to attempt to tag … Read more