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This is a story of how researcher Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao became enthralled in the ancient elephant and forest corridors criss-crossing continents. The corridors are now divided or destroyed by…
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This is a story from Tavengwa Chitata about how he has evolved through different experiences and in the process, how his approach to research has evolved with these experiences. The story gives an…
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This is a story
about how an indigenous community in Mexico adapts tourism to their culture of
solidarity to support their members’ life projects. It centres on Itzel San Roman…
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This is a story about people’s
worldviews (their beliefs and common sense knowledge), how they fundamentally
shape our behaviour and yet how they are so often ignored in development policy
and…
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This story draws on Frances Cleaver’s experience of research in the Usangu
Plains in South West Tanzania over 20 years. It tracks how development
initiatives for improved land and water…
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This is a story about Juan Mario Diaz Arevalo's engagement with participatory
research in Colombia and the UK. It reflects on the importance of working
together with local communities as well as…
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Suma Mani's story
highlights the phenomenon of woody plant encroachment in the savannas of South
Africa viewed through the lens of both white and black farmers in the Eastern
Cape. The story…
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Laure Joanny recalls her experience of learning about the technologies
keeping watch over Indonesia’s forest and wildlife, while having to report to
the national authorities.
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Judith Krauss tells three short stories on cocoa sustainability, national parks and the
Sustainable Development Goals: they are part of one bigger story about how everything
is connected, often in…
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Workshop 2 of 3 with writer in residence for the Faculty of Science Kerry Young on how to make the story of your writing come alive.
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Faculty of Science
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There's a castle underneath Sheffield, buried for four hundred years. So why does no-one know about it?Working from previously unexplored archives and making use of exciting new technologies,…
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Archaeology
Architecture
Corporate Communications
Development and Alumni Relations
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Marcia Vera is incredibly passionate about her research but her family found it difficult to understand why she wanted to give up a successful career to pursue a PhD. In this talk, Marcia discusses…
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Geography
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How can the lives and experiences of two people, who live in the same city but have never met, help with research into life expectancy and quality of life for the elderly? Peter Bath from the…
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Information School
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Alex Perez from Animal & Plant Sciences takes us back in time to a tale of when we were hunters, to demonstrate the importance of the development of agriculture on our lives.
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Animal and Plant Sciences
Faculty of Science
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We're all aware that parental behaviour will have a large determining effect on the personality of a child, but what about the effect of the child on the parent? Psychologist Simone Croft…
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Faculty of Science
Psychology
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Join archaeologist Rachel Askew for a tale of Civil War shenanigans where Parliamentarians and Scottish mercenaries lay siege to the loyalist town of Newark, and enlist the support of a herd of…
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Archaeology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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