We are delighted to announce that we have two further PhD scholarship opportunities available.<\/p>\n
DEADLINE: 28th April 2017<\/strong> This project will examine evolutionary transitions in dental morphology during human evolution. It will examine external and internal aspects of fossil hominin tooth morphology using microtomography and morphometrics in order to address outstanding questions about hominin systematics and hominin tooth development.<\/p>\n Full details can be found on our Scholarships webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n DEADLINE: 18th May 2017 The science of reintroducing species back into the wild has evolved into a distinct branch of conservation science. The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology<\/a> has been working at the forefront of species conservation and reintroduction biology with partners around the world for over two decades. An opportunity has now arisen to apply this experience and expertise locally, with an analysis of the feasibility of bringing back the iconic Red-billed Chough to Kent. The Chough population has become highly fragmented with several isolated populations around the coast of Britain. The Chough was once more widespread and formerly occurred as far east as Kent where it became extinct c. 160 years ago. However, it still lives on in the Coat of Arms of Canterbury City and the University of Kent, and potential habitat remains in Kent, with large areas of nature reserves and farmland across the Dover area.<\/p>\n Full details can be found on our Scholarships webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are delighted to announce that we have two further PhD scholarship opportunities available. DEADLINE: 28th April 2017 Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship in Human Evolution … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1975,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship in Human Evolution
\n<\/strong>Project title: Evolution of teeth in fossil humans
\nSupervisor: Dr Matthew Skinner<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Project title: Restoring a Kentish icon: feasibility of \u00a0reintroducing the Chough to Kent
\nSupervisor: Dr\u00a0Bob Smith<\/a>, Professor Richard Griffiths<\/a>, Professor Jim Groombridge<\/a> and Dr Dav<\/a>e Roberts<\/a>.<\/p>\n