Section: Research

Overview

Social Anthropology has a thriving research culture, bringing together academic staff, a lively and cosmopolitan body of postgraduate researchers, and a growing number of postdoctoral fellows. In recent years we have won significant external funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust, as well as non-academic partners like the Department for International Development. We have an excellent record of success in recent ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship schemes. Social Anthropology was ranked 5th in the UK according to the 2008 RAE.

What do we work on?

Our special strengths include:

  • Anthropology of politics
  • Kinship, personhood and ritual
  • Film, media and the aesthetic
  • Anthropology in practice
  • Medical anthropology
  • Development

 

We have concentrations of expertise in:

  • Africa
  • South Asia
  • Europe
  • The Middle East
  • Southeast Asia
  • East Asia
  • Latin America

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