Research by Dr Matthew Skinner and Professor Tracy Kivell on new fossil finds that helped increase our knowledge of human evolution has been included in … Read more
Category: Research
Conference: ‘Ten years of crisis: The ethnography of austerity’
Professor João de Pina-Cabral is co-organising a prestigious conference on the economic crisis and in Southern Europe and the austerity policies that were created in … Read more
Dr Hazel Jackson quoted in New Statesman on ring-necked parakeets
The ring-necked parakeet is described by the RSPB as the UK’s only naturalised parrot, of which there are estimated to be as many as 32,000 … Read more
DICE student Nick Deere publishes some of his PhD work in the Journal of Applied Ecology
Carbon-rich tropical forests, which are often among the least-disturbed habitats, seem to be ideal bastions for sensitive and threatened animals, particularly compared to lower-carbon areas … Read more
Dr Lois Lee delivers research seminar on understanding non-religion and ethics in the UK
For Week 9’s instalment of the social anthropology seminar series on ‘Understanding Ethics in Our Changing World’, Dr Lois Lee, Research Fellow in the Religious … Read more
Dr David Henig speaks on post-conflict and military waste in Bosnia-Herzegovina for KISS
The Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies (KISS) hosted a joint event with the Kent Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) last month that featured … Read more
PhD candidate Ruth Auger delivers research seminar on homelessness in Canterbury
Ruth Auger, a current PhD student, gave the Anthropology Research Seminar on 13 November 2017. Her talk was titled ‘The making of the moral person: … Read more
DICE student and alumni involved in discovery of a new frog species from Madagascar
Early last year a small team of researchers, which included current DICE PhD student Lawrence Ball and DICE alumni Jeanneney Rabearivony and Duncan Parker, embarked on … Read more
Professor Richard Griffiths quoted in Nature article about the threats facing axolotl conservation
The axolotl is on the brink of annihilation in the canals of Mexico City, its only natural habitat. But although there might be just a … Read more
Dr Ian Singleton describes new Great Ape species: the Tapanuli orangutan
A team of Indonesian and international scientists have described a new species of orangutan, in a paper published in the scientific journal Current Biology. The … Read more