Research published this week by the School of Anthropology and Conservation’s Experimental Archaeologist Dr Alastair Key reveals that the stone tools used by our early … Read more
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Research Scholarship available on International Wildlife Trade
A new Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship is being offered for anyone with a research interest or expertise in the field of online illegal wildlife trade. … Read more
Visual anthropology screening and Q & A with Dr Jan Lorenz
The School of Anthropology & Conservation is delighted to host a film screening of Active Citizen: Recycling followed by a Q & A with its … Read more
Dr David Henig’s work published as part of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality
Dr David Henig’s work on languages of informality and economies of favours has been published as part of The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. This ambitious … Read more
DICE research reveals hope for Chile’s vulnerable güiña wildcat
Research carried out by Dr Nicolas Galvez, a former DICE PhD candidate, has discovered that the güiña wildcat from Chile is more tolerant of deforestation and direct killing by people as retaliation … Read more
Dario Novellino speaking on Palm Oil impacts
CBCD Honorary Research Fellow and SAC alumni Dr Dario Novellino will be in Paris on January 16th, at a French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) seminar to discuss the … Read more
Research by SAC anthropologists among top science discoveries of 2017
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
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
Anthropology alumna’s student film project selected for competition at Los Angeles CineFest
Catriona Blackburn, who graduated in July 2017 with a BSc in Anthropology, has been invited to screen her film Cooking Ghosts at the 2018 edition … Read more