{"id":9087,"date":"2023-03-02T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:00:29","slug":"february-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"February News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">March 3rd is World Wildlife Day, time to celebrate the world&#8217;s wild animals and plants, the contribution they make to our lives and the health of the planet. We look at that balancing act in this month&#8217;s SAC news roundup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>World Wildlife Day<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>March 3rd is World Wildlife Day, so here&#8217;s a sneak peak of Chantal Kassam&#8217;s Year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9045\/tracking-baby-giraffes-cheetahs-crossing-and-diplomacy-in-the-workplace-a-year-in-professional-practise\"><strong>Professional Giraffe Research<\/strong><\/a> in South Africa, read her blog or <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvm.tiktok.com%2FZMYyd86kx%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CG.Shore-Banks%40kent.ac.uk%7C3b0f5bc247f844df003708db1a2f50b8%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638132562745866982%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=3%2FBrXvaqnPAxP%2B1nJEzyo3kzly0oWednjqA8p7JlaEQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">watch her celebration of some glorious wildlife <strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8991\/setting-land-aside-boosts-biodiversity-on-oil-palm-plantations\"><strong>Dr Jake Bicknell<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s new study looked at reducing oil palm devastations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8984\/conservation-setbacks-the-secrets-to-lifting-morale\"><strong>Dr Jim Groombridge<\/strong><\/a> described how to lead a conservation field team, even when the species in question disappears..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>In Anthropology, there is no taboo<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9054\/lets-talk-sex-toys\"><strong>Not to seem cocky<\/strong><\/a>&#8230; but student Nerys Bushnell and her dissertation supervisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/people\/486\/johns-sarah\">Dr Sarah Johns<\/a> have published a paper, exploring the previously taboo topic of sex toys, looking at data on the features women found most desirable in a toy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who You Calling Fossil?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We threw the doors open to our Darwin Lab to share some of our collection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yac-uk.org\/clubs\/canterbury\">The Young Archaeologist\u2019s Club of Canterbury<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9016\/who-you-calling-fossil\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>A Kent river had been hiding a 3000 year old Toddler Shoe, which we identified at our Imaging Centre for Life Sciences. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9112\/use-of-micro-ct-scanner-to-verify-bronze-age-toddler-shoe\"><strong>See the toe-on view here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Making Herstory<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">PhD researcher Barbara Denuelle travelled to Liverpool to commemorate the life of the first Victorian woman to embrace Islam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9014\/sac-phd-researcher-joins-commemoration-of-the-first-victorian-woman-to-embrace-islam\"><strong>Fatima Elizabeth Cates<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mapping It<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>James Bronthon&#8217;s module choices in geography created a holistic journey in his understanding of sustainability. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9008\/geography-and-me-a-journey-of-discovery-at-the-university-of-kent\"><strong>Read here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t Miss..<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Next in our Inspirational Speaker Series, we host political activist and Kent alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/9098\/aba-amoah-joins-us-this-international-womens-day\"><strong>Aba Amoah<\/strong><\/a>. on International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/219\/cichocka-aleksandra\">Professor Alexsandra Cichocka<\/a> beautifully kicked off the HSS Innaugral Lecture Series last month. She&#8217;s followed by development economist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2278\/wahhaj-zaki\">Professor Zaki Wahhaj<\/a> who will speak on <em>Marriage Decisions in Low-Income Countries<\/em> next on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8953\/hss-inaugural-lecture-series-2023\">Friday 10 March<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Dave Goulson from the University of Sussex will give the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\/news\/8962\/silent-earth-averting-the-insect-apocalypse\"><strong>annual DICE Lecture<\/strong><\/a> on averting the insect apocalypse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3rd is World Wildlife Day, time to celebrate the world&#8217;s wild animals and plants, the contribution they make to our lives and the health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/02\/february-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":9148,"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\/9087"}],"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=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9158,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}