{"id":7175,"date":"2021-11-01T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:10:49","slug":"october-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/11\/01\/october-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"October News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">COP26 is upon us, but at SAC it&#8217;s an everyday thing for staff, students and alumni finding ever more ingenious ways to share messages about tackling climate change as well as resourceful research and remedies for our planet. <\/p>\n<h2>We took a trip&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On Tuesday 12th October 2021 the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) conservation masters students had the opportunity to visit the Wildwood Trust as part of a module concerning the multidisciplinary perspectives on conservation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7148\/dice-masters-student-trip-to-wildwood\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Congratulations!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">Environmental Magic! Alumni Megan Swann became President of the Magic Circle.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7092\/kent-sac-alumni-megan-swann-becomes-president-of-the-magic-circle\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Superb news! SAC joins consortium of major Europe-wide reforestation project. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7186&amp;action=edit\">Restoration of forests across Europe starts here.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Graduates Dalia Tarazi &amp; Massimo D\u2019Aloia Thompson formed the hands-on Environmentally Conscious Society and were awarded two outstanding awards in the first year of their formation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7051\/taking-hands-on-action-to-create-lasting-change\">Read how they did it!\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>We received a visit&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Refugee puppet girl Little Amal, visited our Canterbury campus after walking 8000km from Syria across Europe to the Kent coast. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7129\/little-amal-visits-kent\">A stark reminder of the geopolitical effect conflicts have on forced migration.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Researching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Herpetologist Steve Allain has been \u2018migrating\u2019 regularly to Norfolk collecting data for his PhD and catching his study species, which he acknowledges might not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7074\/snakes-in-the-grass\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Kent\u2019s Centre for World Affairs (KCWA) is a platform that aims to provide a space for early career researchers to get their research out into the world.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/news\/3576\/a-phd-led-platform-to-communicate-interdisciplinary-research\"><strong>Find out about their PhD-led platform to communicate interdisciplinary research within the Human and Social Sciences Division<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\">Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Anthropology and Conservation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP26 is upon us, but at SAC it&#8217;s an everyday thing for staff, students and alumni finding ever more ingenious ways to share messages about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2021\/11\/01\/october-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":7182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175"}],"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\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}