R University of Roehampton London

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Courses
Student Life
Student Life

At Roehampton, we provide a wide range of opportunities for you to get involved, through volunteering, playing sport or music, or joining one of our many active student societies. We also have a beautiful parkland campus, in the heart of south-west London.
Student Support
Student Support

As a student, you will have be supported not just by those that teach you, but also by the wide range of staff who will be with you throughout your studies.

We provide health and wellbeing services, financial guidance and support to develop your study skills. You will also have access to careers advice, work placements, paid and voluntary work opportunities and career mentoring.
Research
Research

At Roehampton, we are focused on creating new knowledge and ideas that help us to understand our world and make it a better place. We are ranked the most research-intensive modern university in the UK. Our staff undertake world-class research across all our academic departments. This means that if you join us as a student, you will benefit from being taught by leading thinkers from your first year of study.
- Research and Knowledge Exchange Centres
  
  Arts and Creative Exchange
  
  Equality, Justice and Social Change
  
  Inclusive Humanities
  
  Integrated Research in Life and Health Sciences
  
  Learning, Teaching and Human Development
  
  Psychological Wellbeing
  
  Sustainability and Responsible Management
Contact us

From 'Feed the Birds' to 'Do not Feed the Animals'

Staff:
Garry Marvin (Project CoI)
Giovanna Capponi (3 year Post Doctoral Associate)
Garry Marvin and Stuart Semple, supervisors for 3 PhD students (Alex Mullan, Herre de Bondt, Helen Nakielny) included in the project.

This is a muti-institution (University of Exeter, Readinng University, National Museums of Scotland, University of Roehampton) and multidisciplinary (zooarcheology, istopic analyses, osteology, rural policy, STS, anthropology) project, funded by the Wellcome Trust. It will undertake a deep-time and cross-cultural investigation exploring the roots, and the continuing practices, of animal feeding, and critique the benefits/risks for all concerned. Particularly, we will test our hypothesis that animal domestication itself was driven by the human penchant for animal feeding and that this process is not just continuing but accelerating, with consequences for global human-animal-environmental health.