School of Anthropology and Conservation

From locking in at the library to being Chief Bucket Manager™ doing Jaja Ding D**g karaoke, hear from our Katie! She tells us all about her placement in Iceland.
 
“You are instantly best friends with anyone you meet, whether you bump into someone in the shop or the geothermal pool! Húsavík is small, so we had to make our own fun by hosting potluck dinners, endless Jaja Ding D**g karaoke, playing card games while sipping coffee in local cafes, and spending the evenings staring at the mountains while soaking in the geothermal infinity pool.”

Read more! Link in bio

'It was a challenge to scan this wet and fragile object, which might be the only one of its kind, but when we saw there was something inside the shell it instantly became worth it! I'm excited to see what the next scientific analyses will reveal.'

Dr Chris Dunmore scanned the 1,700 year old Aylesbury egg in our Imaging Centre For Life Sciences.

Roman egg found in Aylesbury still has contents after 1,700 years Archaeologists and naturalists astonished to find yolk and albumen that may reveal secrets about the bird that laid it

Dominique Gonçalves is a Mozambican ecologist who manages the Gorongosa Elephant Ecology Project since 2017 in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Her work is a holistic blend of ecology, behaviour, and conservation, to help build coexistence between communities and elephants throughout the Park’s buffer zone. A passionate advocate of girls’ education to prevent early marriage, Gonçalves also supports the park’s Girls’ Club program through the role models initiative.

Dominique was the narrator of an award-winning film called “Our Gorongosa: a Park for the People”. She is a National Geographic Society Explorer and has been featured in National Geographic Channel’s “Women of Impact” film. In 2020, she was nominated for the Pritzker Genius Award Prize.

🐘Her talk, “Living with Giants: Elephant Conservation in Gorongosa, Mozambique” will take you through the fall and recovery of the elephant population, and its impacts in the social-ecological system of one of the most successful restoration efforts in Africa.

🌿Join the DICE team on Thursday 18th January 2024 at 18.00 (GMT) at the University of Kent, Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 (Pre-booking is not necessary).

An exciting opportunity to spend your placement year taking part in important game and wildlife conservation research with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Events.

The Trust has placements available to students in the 2024/25 academic year.

https://www.gwct.org.uk/about/student-opportunities/undergraduates/

Join Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology - DICE this Thursday, 18:00 to 19:00 in Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 for what is sure to be a fascinating and insightful account from one of the UK’s most accomplished conservationists.

Do you want to help reduce food waste?

Would you like to spend more time outdoors to clear your head and recharge?

Would you like to learn more about the realities of farming?

If your answer is YES to all of the above, then Gleaning is just the volunteer activity for you!

Find out more here:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/producedinkentltd/1055056

Massive Congratulations to Stage 3 student Jack Scott who has been announced as the BBC Countryfile Extra Young Countryside Champion 2023! We are all so proud of you Jack!

Read more about his win and watch him on the show:

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sac-news-events/2023/11/06/sac-student-crowned-bbc-countryfile-young-countryside-champion/

📍Know thy campus!

🧭 A big welcome to our 1st year Human Geography students on an orienteering session with Dr Mark Hampton, Dr Daisy Emoekabu and Dr Jonathan Rock Rokem.

Joining academic societies are not only a great way to make friends, but also help you with the transition to university and its workload.

SAC has a great variety of academic groups, such as Ecogeogsoc, Conservation society and Anthropology.

Here they are in action at the SAC 2022 Christmas party, what a lovely bunch!

(The skeleton is a paid actor... 💅🏻✨💁‍♀️)

Yesterday was the first day of field work in Costa Rica for those of us on the Wildlife Conservation Stage 3 field trip!

It’s already been amazing! 😍The day started off with a workshop in the middle of a thunderstorm, followed by field work, and topped off with some incredible wildlife!

So far, we’ve set up experiments for our assignments, and assisted with their wildlife surveys- including mammals 🐒, otters 🦦, macaw 🦜 , and turtles 🐢

Stay tuned for some wildlife moments, and some forest fails! Follow stories for regular updates 🇨🇷

Our 3rd Year Wildlife Conservation students, taking the Tropical Conservation module, are off to Caño Palma Biological Station, 8 kilometres north of the village of Tortuguero on Costa Rica’s north-eastern coast🦎🌴🇨🇷 follow stories for regular updates🐢

Wondering what to study this coming term?

Erin Whitmore took the Human and Social Sciences in the Classroom Module, a one-term placement opportunity that allows students to teach aspects of their degree subject in a local school and gain the skills that will directly translate to a teaching career.

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sac-news-events/2023/08/07/my-passion-for-teaching/