{"id":3161,"date":"2018-09-26T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:42:50","slug":"inaugural-dice-talk-how-can-we-save-ugly-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/09\/26\/inaugural-dice-talk-how-can-we-save-ugly-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural DICE talk: &#8216;How can we save ugly species?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Anthropology and Conservation has created a new series named DICE Talks that will take place every month and will consist of a public lecture by DICE staff, students and alumni.<\/p>\n<p>Director of DICE, Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-biology\/academic-staff\/smith_bob.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bob Smith<\/a>, will be delivering the inaugural lecture addressing how &#8216;ugly&#8217; species can be saved at the University of Kent&#8217;s Canterbury campus on Thursday 27th September, 2018. Dr Smith will talk about his research on how conservationists can best fundraise for uncharismatic and ugly species.<\/p>\n<p>His work as a conservation scientist involves understanding how marketing techniques developed in the business world can help conserve nature, encouraging people to change their attitudes and behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The talk, entitled &#8216;How can we save ugly species?&#8217; will take place in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 starting at 18:00.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The event is free and open to the public<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Anthropology and Conservation has created a new series named DICE Talks that will take place every month and will consist of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/09\/26\/inaugural-dice-talk-how-can-we-save-ugly-species\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,6598,124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161"}],"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\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}