Feb. 19, 2019 – An international project on centralisation and decentralisation in federations – the first major study of its kind – finds that centralisation is not inevitable. Even the United States, where federalism is often seen as being at risk, is less centralised than many think. A team led by Dr Paolo Dardanelli, Reader in […]
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Brexit as much due to resistance to supranationalism as immigration
Feb. 12, 2019 – The UK referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) may have had as much to do with people’s distrust of international organisations as it did fear of immigration. Researchers from the University of Kent’s schools of Psychology and Politics and International Relations found that Euroscepticism is not only shaped by […]
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Stone tools reveal modern human-like gripping capabilities 500,000 years ago
Aug. 20, 2018 – Research carried out at the University of Kent demonstrates that a technique used to produce stone tools that were first found half a million years ago is likely to have needed a modern human-like hand. This research is the first to link a stone tool production technique known as ‘platform preparation’ […]
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Protecting ‘high carbon’ rainforest areas also protects threatened wildlife
Nov. 6, 2017 – Conservation efforts focused on protecting forests using carbon-based policies also benefit mammal diversity, new research at the University of Kent has found. To help mitigate the effects of climate change, policies have been developed across the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation. Much of this deforestation is caused […]
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Support for populist ideologies linked to feelings of disadvantage and national narcissism
Oct. 24, 2017 – People who perceive they are part of a disadvantaged group are more likely to have an unrealistic belief in the greatness of their nation and support populist ideologies. A team of psychologists and political scientists from the universities of Kent (UK), Warsaw (Poland) and Maryland (USA) found in three studies that […]
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Forest fire pollution wreaks havoc on wildlife
Sept. 20, 2017 – Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the biodiversity of the region due to the smoke-induced ‘haze’ they created, according to new research led by Benjamin Lee at the University of Kent and the National Parks Board in Singapore. In the first […]