{"id":8160,"date":"2022-09-04T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=8160"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:25:01","slug":"august-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/09\/04\/august-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"August News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Smells, synchrony, and sustainability. What a summer that was! Read our August News RoundUp now.<\/p>\n<h2>From Bulldozers to Bison<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you heard about Kent&#8217;s new ecosystem engineers? <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8148\/wild-bison-return-to-the-uk-after-thousands-of-years\">Find out more<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Striking a balance<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government&#8217;s pledge to build 300,000 new homes per year conflicts with\u00a0England\u2019s carbon budget and national biodiversity targets, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/2231\/zu-ermgassen-sophus\">Dr Sophus zu Ermgassen<\/a>&#8216;s research. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8156\/england-housing-strategy-could-consume-over-100-of-the-nations-carbon-budget\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Can club-culture benefit mental health?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropologist Dr Martha Newson took her rave research to the rave this summer, for a discussion on Synchrony, at We Out Here festival in Cambridgeshire. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/08\/27\/the-connection-of-the-crowd\/\">She joined DJ&#8217;s and Producers for the panel discussion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t Worry Be Happy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/clearing\">Clearing<\/a> is an anxious time, but recent Anthropology graduate Louis Richards reminisces about their clearing experience and how they couldn&#8217;t be happier about choosing Kent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8119\/expanding-your-horizons\"><strong>Read more here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Long, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/36\/anthropology\">BSc (Hons) Anthropology<\/a>, was full of worries until UKC stepped in to make the clearing process easy and stress free.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8125\/i-couldnt-imagine-doing-anything-different-now\"><strong> Read their story<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>First-of-its-kind research<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Research led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/548\/mahoney-patrick\">Dr Patrick Mahoney<\/a>\u00a0discovered evidence of a biorhythm in human primary teeth that&#8217;s associated with weight gain during adolescence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8153\/dental-biorhythm-is-associated-with-adolescent-weight-gain\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Stop and smell the roses&#8230; literally<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We know nature affects human wellbeing &#8211; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/3538\/fisher-jessica-c\">Dr Jessica Fisher<\/a>, Postdoctoral Research Associate at <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\">DICE<\/a>, discovered that smells play a powerful role in making us feel relaxed, joyful, and healthy.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8135\/smells-of-nature-have-powerful-impact-study-finds\"><strong> Learn more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><\/h2>\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>Smells, synchrony, and sustainability. What a summer that was! Read our August News RoundUp now. From Bulldozers to Bison Have you heard about Kent&#8217;s new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/09\/04\/august-news-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78674,"featured_media":8166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,259856],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160"}],"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\/78674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions\/8188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}