{"id":4411,"date":"2020-01-24T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:46:32","slug":"conservationist-dr-jane-goodall-to-deliver-this-years-dice-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/01\/24\/conservationist-dr-jane-goodall-to-deliver-this-years-dice-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservationist Dr Jane Goodall to deliver this year’s DICE Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

World-renowned conservationist and ethologist Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, will deliver this year’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)<\/a> Lecture at the University’s Canterbury campus on the 25th February.<\/p>\n

Taking place in a sold-out Woolf College, Dr Goodall\u2019s public talk will be part of the University\u2019s Distinguished Visitor Lecture series, in which leading\u00a0academics and scientists\u00a0present their insights to\u00a0inspire and inform\u00a0others.<\/p>\n

Her talk, \u2018Gombe and Beyond: Chimpanzees, conservation and change\u2018, will address her early research at Gombe in eastern Tanzania which began in 1960, and the Jane Goodall Institute\u2019s programmes that have evolved over 60 years.<\/p>\n

Dr Goodall will also talk about her\u00a0Roots & Shoots<\/a>\u00a0programme, soon to be joined by the University, which\u00a0empowers young people\u00a0of all ages in more than 50 countries to become involved in hands-on programmes to\u00a0benefit the community, animals (including domestic animals) and the environment\u00a0we all share.<\/p>\n

Before the lecture, Dr Goodall will meet with a group of\u00a0Kent students\u00a0to discuss how they will become involved in Roots & Shoots, sharing her experiences in relation to their own\u00a0conservation work\u00a0and that of the\u00a0Kent Conservation Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event is\u00a0raising funds\u00a0for the\u00a0Jane Goodall Institute UK<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0DICE MSc Scholarship Fund, <\/a>and all the ticket proceeds will help\u00a0support conservation work around the world. There will be book sales and a signing with Dr Goodall\u00a0following her lecture.<\/p>\n

Professor Bob Smith<\/a>, Director of DICE, said of the event: “We are absolutely delighted and honoured\u00a0that Dr Goodall is giving this year\u2019s DICE Lecture, given all her inspirational achievements. We will be celebrating our\u00a030th Anniversary\u00a0and our\u00a0recent award of a Queen\u2019s Anniversary Prize<\/a>, so this will make the event even more special.”<\/p>\n

Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dr Goodall said, “I am looking forward to being at the University of Kent and to\u00a0involving students there in our ever-expanding global Roots & Shoots university network.”<\/p>\n

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Dr Jane Goodall beside a waterfall in Gombe National Park (Jane Goodall Institute\/Bill Wallauer).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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