{"id":8962,"date":"2023-01-30T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:54:47","slug":"silent-earth-averting-the-insect-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/01\/30\/silent-earth-averting-the-insect-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that this year\u2019s DICE Lecture will be given by Professor Dave Goulson,\u00a0a world expert on insect ecology and conservation, with a particular focus on bumblebees and other insects. His work also looks at understanding pollination in general and sustainable management of pollinators in agro-ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently working as a Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex and has published more than 300 scientific articles and several popular science books. Among his most celebrated books are the Sunday Times bestseller \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/may\/18\/sting-tale-dave-goulson-review\">A Sting in the Tale<\/a>\u201d in 2010 and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/443405\/silent-earth-by-goulson-dave\/9781529114423\">Silent Earth<\/a>\u201d in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s lecture is open to everyone and will take place on Thursday March 9th from 18:00 to 19:30 in Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 on the Canterbury campus. The lecture will be followed by a book signing featuring Dave\u2019s latest book the \u201cSilent Earth\u201d and some of his previous work.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will also be recorded and be made available online following the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on accessing the lecture online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1117616002246505\">please visit.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that this year\u2019s DICE Lecture will be given by Professor Dave Goulson,\u00a0a world expert on insect ecology and conservation, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/01\/30\/silent-earth-averting-the-insect-apocalypse\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":8963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6599,6598],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962"}],"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\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}