{"id":7793,"date":"2022-05-30T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2022-05-30T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:51:25","slug":"may-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/30\/may-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">After our really successful results in the REF21, and some amazing nominations four our staff in the Above and Beyond student awards, we would proudly welcome you here for the Bio Blitz 2022 this June. Find out about it all in our Monthly RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">SAC Celebrate Success!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In the REF2021 Geography and Environmental Studies have ranked top in the UK for research publications, comprising 100% world leading or internationally excellent publications, while in Anthropology and Development Studies, 82% of publications were classed as world leading or internationally excellent, climbing to 12th position in the UK. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7750\/sac-celebrate-ref-success\"><strong>Read the full results summary<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/2231\/zu-ermgassen-sophus\">Sophus zu Ermgassen<\/a> appeared on the first ever environmental \u2018Power List\u2019 published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endsreport.com\/\">The ENDS Report<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7746\/sophus-zu-ermgassen-one-of-the-most-influential-uk-environmental-professionals\">Read more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>STEM Book of the Year is awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/479\/fish-robert\">Professor Robert Fish<\/a>&#8216;s excellent environmental graphic\u00a0 text book <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/24\/book-of-the-year\/\"><strong>Valuing Nature<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>BioBlitz is back for 2022!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>After such a successful inaugural year this student-led intensive day of surveying the biodiversity on our campus returns in June. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/26\/after-such-a-successful-inaugural-event-bioblitz-is-back-for-2022\/\">Join in here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>In danger&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A new documentary, \u2018Coastal Tourism: Japan\u2019s Sinking Sector\u2019 which premiered on KMTV focuses on the disappearance of Japan\u2019s coastline and how both locals and British academics are attempting to combat this before it\u2019s too late. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7764\/japans-sinking-sector\">Watch here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Authors of a major study, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/482\/groombridge-jim\">Professor Jim Groombridge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/person\/hazel-jackson\/\">Dr Hazel Jackson<\/a> warn that boosting species numbers of the once critically endangered pink pigeon is not enough to save it from extinction in the future without continued conservation actions.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7761\/pink-pigeon-population-increases-but-extinction-risk-remains-high\"> Learn more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>ConGRADulations!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We were finally able to celebrate the immense achievements of the students who were most impacted by the pandemic, these graduations were all the more joyful for the wait that preceded them! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/30\/celebrating-the-class-of-2021\/\">View the flickr album.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>European Collaboration<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/mapurban-eu\/\">MAPURBAN<\/a> project brings light to differences in access to urban resources. The aim is to share experiences, approaches, methods and knowledge between the three cities. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/7773\/mapping-urban-resources-and-kitchen-square\">Find out more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/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>After our really successful results in the REF21, and some amazing nominations four our staff in the Above and Beyond student awards, we would proudly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/30\/may-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":7842,"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\/7793"}],"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=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}