Category: Research

Principal Investigator: Dr Zoe Davies Co Investigator Dr Bob Smith Project dates: 2012-2013 Funding: Darwin Initiative Overseas Territories Challenge Fund Collaborators: Falklands Conservation, South Atlantic … Read more

Principal Investigator: Dr Jim Groombridge Co Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project Officer: Rachel Bristol Project dates: October 2012-2015 Funding: DEFRA, Darwin Initiative Fund UK Project … Read more

Principal Investigator: Dr Bob Smith Co Investigator Dr Freya St, John Project dates: 2012 – 2013 Funding: Critical Environment Partnership Fund Collaborators: Private Rhino Owners … Read more

Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Griffiths Project dates: 1 April 2012 – 31 March 2016 Funding: Darwin Initiative: £254,788 Collaborators: Madagasikara Voakajy   Madagascar is underachieving … Read more

Congratulations to Yoshimi Osawa, PhD Ethnobiology graduate, on the publication of her paper, ‘Glutamate Perception, Soup Stock, and the Concept of Umami: The Ethnography, Food … Read more

Abishek Harihar, currently studying for his PhD in Biodiversity Management, is celebrating the first publication from his doctoral research. The paper published in PLoS ONE … Read more

During July Freya St John will be in Taiwan to initiate a project in collaboration with Professor Kurtis Pei of the Institute of Wildlife Conservation, … Read more

Huge congratulations to Dr Melissa Demian on being awarded an ESRC grant for her project “Legal Innovation in Papua New Guinea”. The project will fund … Read more

Congratulations to Graciela Alcantara-Salinas on winning the silver medal ‘Miguel Ángel Martínez Alfaro’ for best PhD thesis at the Mexican Ethnobiological Congress. Professor Roy Ellen … Read more

New research from anthropologists in the School of Anthropology and Conservation may have important ramifications for the future study of the role of colour signals … Read more