Species Conservation: Lessons from Islands, edited by Jim Groombridge, Simon Black, Jamieson Copsey and Carl Jones, has been published by Cambridge University Press featuring research … Read more
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Special Lecture: Mountains, Megaliths and Shamans
The School of Anthropology and Conservation is hosting a special talk entitled Mountains, Monoliths and Shamans provided by John Vincent Bellezza, an expert on Tibetan … Read more
SAC alumna awarded the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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
Professor Richard Griffiths interviewed for BBC Radio 4 documentary on the axolotl
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
Dr Robert Fish appointed lead editor of major new journal
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 Tracy Kivell interviewed for Womanthology on Soapbox Science
Professor Tracy Kivell has been interviewed in a special issue of the digital magazine Womanthology dedicated to Soapbox Science, an organisation that highlights the research of … Read more
Three weeks until Soapbox Science Canterbury!
Soapbox Science is an organisation that brings the research of women scientists to the public. On Saturday June 23rd, the School of Anthropology and Conservation will … Read more
Symposium – New Ethnographic Contexts: Creativity and Performance
Two volumes published separately on two sides of the Atlantic invite us to envisage a methodological universe that expands beyond conventional methods and approaches. Les … Read more
Transparencies: A screening of visual anthropology projects
Please join us for the biggest student screening event in the history of visual anthropology at Kent on Thursday 31st May. We have 31 short … Read more
Professor Roy Ellen awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
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