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As a co-director of the ExCiteS research group, he works on the participatory development and testing of iconic interfaces for smartphones and intelligent mapping applications designed to address problems identified by forest people in Central Africa and support them to document and analyse the issues they face.
These have so far focused on forest people鈥檚 relations with logging companies, illegal loggers, poachers and conservation law enforcers. He is also co-director of 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 Environment Institute, Director of the Cultures of Sustainability section and a Director of Anthroscape Ltd.Trained in anthropology at the London School of Economics, (PhD 2002), Jerome has been working on the hunter-gatherer people of Central Africa since 1993. He became a lecturer in 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 department of Anthropology in 2007.
His research interests focus on hunter-gatherers, in particular in Central Africa. Key areas of research are in learning, play, egalitarianism, gender relations, ritual, religion, language, music and dance, and hunter-gatherers'听interaction with global forces. 听He has just completed editing 鈥楾he Social Origins of Language鈥� with Dan Dor and Chris Knight, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.