{"id":9187,"date":"2023-04-03T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2023-04-03T15:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:07:28","slug":"march-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/04\/03\/march-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"March RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Hunting, Fishing and Growing Your Own, all up for discussion in our monthly News RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2>On the Hunt<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"x_ContentPasted1\">Ready, Click, Aim: James Bronthon studying Conservation with a Year in Journalism blogs about <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/31\/on-the-hunt-for-a-story-how-journalism-reveals-a-new-side-of-the-wild\/\">hunting for a story.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Serengeti lion Bob Jr., hailed as Africa\u2019s &#8216;most photogenic&#8217;, has been killed by his rivals. Professor Keith Somerville told the Washington Post about their encounter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/03\/15\/lion-bob-junior-serengeti-killed\/\">See here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Set on our wildlife-rich campus, BioBlitz intensive day of surveying the biodiversity here, in the form of a student-led initiative to engage the public.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=9251&amp;action=edit\"> What will we find this year?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Growing Your Own<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This year&#8217;s annual DICE lecture was given by David Goulson on &#8216;Silent Earth: averting the insect apocalypse&#8217;. Environmental Science student Abbie Cushion was there and felt inspired to get into the garden! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/22\/rewilding-the-future-on-professor-goulsons-guest-lecture\/\">Abbie&#8217;s Top Take-Aways<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Isabella spoke on BBC Radio Kent describing how the skills she has developed volunteering at the Oasis Garden has been really empowering in a cost of living crisis.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/27\/bbc-kent-takeover-food-insecurity-and-the-oasis-garden\/\">Listen here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A Canterbury Tale<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This two part CER workshop centred around documentary project &#8216;From the Cubby&#8217;, co-produced alongside research participants who have lived experiences of rough sleeping in south England. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/06\/acanterburytale\/\">Inside The Cubby.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Conserving Morale<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Jim Groombridge lifts the lid on boosting team morale harnessing energy on a conservation project in<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-00057-6\">Career Q&amp;A in Nature Magazine<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\">DICE<\/a> who have achieved Institute Status! To celebrate they decided to give out some prizes! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/03\/10\/dice-awards-celebrating-your-success\/\">See all the prize-winners here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting, Fishing and Growing Your Own, all up for discussion in our monthly News RoundUp. On the Hunt Ready, Click, Aim: James Bronthon studying Conservation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2023\/04\/03\/march-roundup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80635,"featured_media":9276,"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\/9187"}],"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\/80635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}