Research students
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Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology | Material Culture听| Medical Anthropology听| Social Anthropology
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Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology
Aalaa Al-Shamahi
Supervisor:听Christophe Soligo
Phylogeny, form and function of primate tarsal bones
Supervisors:听Christophe Soligo and Anjali Goswami (Natural History Museum)
Yuan Chen
Comparative study of social organisation and work burden in China
Supervisor:听Ruth Mace
Roots, routes, and regulations: ayurvedic herbal trade in the UK
Supervisors: Emily Woodhouse, Lewis Daly and听Alex Antonelli (Royal Botanic Gardens)
The evolution of religious celibacy
Supervisor:听Ruth Mace
Plant conservation in Colombia: Integrating ecological approaches and local knowledge for the protection of useful plant species
Supervisors:听Katherine Homewood, Terry Dawson (King's College London), Mauricio Diazgranados (Royal Botanic Gardens)
Understanding constraints on horizontal and vertical information transmission in baboons: Implications for the evolution of culture
Supervisors: Volker Sommer and Alecia Carter
Gabriella Santini
Herder-lion entanglements in the Maasai Mara: An exploration of conservation
Supervisors:听Emily Woodhouse and Sarah Durant
Eel fisheries from local to global: Drivers of exploitation and prospects for sustainability
Supervisors:听Caroline Garaway and听Katherine Homewood
Anna Westland
Intraspecific variation of cranial morphology in Hominoidea
Supervisors:听Christophe Soligo and Aida Gomez-Robles
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Material Culture
Maria Angel
Colombia鈥檚 digital orphans and childless parents: Maintaining sentiments across national borders
Supervisors:听Susanne K眉echler and Allen Abramson
Dan Artus
The epidemiology of truth: A multi-method ethnography of vaccination in the Republic of Ireland
Email:听Hannah Knox, Aaron Parkhurst and Heidi Larson
An anthropology of immersive media in Bristol, UK
Supervisors:听Haidy Geismar and Eleanor Dare (Royal College of Art)
Dave Cook
Digital nomads and imagined worlds of work
Supervisors:听Hannah Knox and Adam Drazin
Nicole Cristi
Situated 鈥榯echnologies鈥: Technical objects, technical systems and technical activities on the category of 鈥榯ecnolog铆a鈥 on spaces of digital fabrication in the central valley of Chile
Supervisor:听Ludovic Coupaye
G19, 14 Taviton Street
Pnevma resonance: Performance art making in Athens, Greece
Supervisors:听Ludovic Coupaye and Rafael Schacter
Chloe Dominique
Queer sex work(er): Identity as praxis
Supervisors:听Ludovic Coupaye and听Victor Buchli
Citizenships of peace: An ethnographic study of digital education projects in post-conflict Colombia
Supervisors:听Hannah Knox and Tone Walford
Space exploration in the Russian Orthodox Christian perspective
Supervisors:听Victor Buchli and Timothy Carroll
Living with Butsudan: Finding care in Japanese homes
Supervisors:听Adam Drazin and听Rebecca Empson
Archiving 1971: contemporary circulations of photography from the Bangladesh Liberation War
Supervisors:听Rafael Schacter and Christopher Pinney
Occlusion and visibility: Visual representation and the Mumbai Parsi community
Supervisors:听Christopher Pinney and Rafael Schacter
Citizen App and the Digital Panopticon: Lateral surveillance and live crime tracking in New York City neighbourhoods
Supervisors:听Daniel Miller, Hannah Knox and听Haidy Geismar
Julian Riveros Clavijo
A tale of development and Migration: a multi-sited digital ethnography of the mobilizations of Afro-Colombian from the Pacific Region to Chile
Supervisors:听Hannah Knox and Lewis Daly
Camilla Sundwall
Material relationships: From industrial design to every day life
Supervisors:听Susanne K眉chler and Adam Drazin
Francisco Vergara
Andean rhythms. Time, practices and identities among Central Andean Mestizos
Supervisors:听Chris Tilley and Ludovic Coupaye
Ali莽a Okumura-Zimmerlin
Anthropology of Outer-Space: Worlding at JAXA
Email:听Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst and Denis Vidal (EHESS/CNRS)
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Medical Anthropology
Paula Bronson
Living with chronic pain in rural Nepal: a clinical ethnography on resilience
Supervisors:听Joe Calabrese and Aaron Parkhurst
Ben Epstein
Disaster mental health: Research and practice in Japan
Supervisors:听Aaron Parkhurst, Joe Calabrese and听Roland Littlewood
Communing with the spirit world: An Ethnographic study amongst contemporary spiritualists in the UK
Supervisors:听Joanna Cook and Timothy Carroll
Untangling tongue-tie 鈥 cutting through the medicalisation of breastfeeding in the UK
Supervisors:听Sahra Gibbon, Aaron Parkhurst and Charlotte Faircloth (IOE)
Xiaolin Li
The menstrual body reimagined: menstruation, digital period-tracking, and sexuality in China
Supervisors:听Daniel Miller and Vivienne Lo
Is there a physiological glass ceiling? A biosocial exploration of women, work, and health
Supervisors:听Sahra Gibbon, Anne McMunn and Emily Emmott
Katrine Nohr
Maternal health and human rights
Supervisor:听David Napier
Jarrard O'Brien
Intergenerational Impacts: How colonisation impacts experience of healthcare
Supervisors:听Sahra Gibbon and听Joseph Calabrese
Can't stop? Understanding internet addiction and its treatment
Supervisors:听Joanna Cook and Tone Walford
Rebecca Williams
The limits of care: Justifiable forms of exclusion and neglect in English healthcare systems
Supervisors:听Sahra Gibbon and James Wilson (Philosophy)
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Social Anthropology
Charles Beach
Frontera combustible: Conceptualising sovereign powers through the experiences of petrol smugglers on Colombia's border with Venezuela
Supervisors:听Lucia Michelutti and Rebecca Empson
Lindsay Bishop
Smoke, smell and skins: Hierarchy in heavy metal
Supervisors:听Susanne K眉chler, Allen Abramson and Titus Hjelm
The cultures political participation in UKIP (U.K. Independence Party). An Ethnographic exploration of English Nationalism in a coastal town in South East Essex
Supervisors:听Lucia Michelutti and Ana Carolina Barreto Balthazar
Joseph Buckley
Linguistic Anthropology of Uzbekistan
Supervisor:听Alexandra Pillen
Conservation politics and Indigenous peoples鈥 rights in the Colombian Amazon: The negotiation and implementation of area-based conservation targets
Supervisors:听Katherine Homewood and Lewis Daly
Matter or not: Non-CPC political parties in contemporary China
Supervisors:听Kimberly Chong and Lucia Michelutti
David Edgar
Good bodies: Affective economies of fitness in 鈥減re-post-conflict鈥 urban Colombia
Supervisors:听Aaron Parkhurt, Miranda Sheild Johansson and Lucia Michelutti
Preparing for life and death while awaiting the Second Coming: an intergenerational study of uncertainty and meaning-making in a Seventh-Day Adventist Theology College
Supervisors:听Joanna Cook and Timothy Carroll
Fiacha O'Dowda
Ecologies of desire: Constituting life in the forests of North East Madagascar
Supervisors:听Jerome Lewis and Ludovic Coupaye
鈥楳oving too fast and breaking the wrong things?鈥 鈥 Imagined futures, posthuman emergence, and risk thinking among proponents of human augmentation technologies in Sweden
Supervisors:听Charles Stewart and Tone Walford
Andrew Sanger
Re-enchanting the Earth: Dance as an environmental practice in the United Kingdom
Supervisors:听H茅l猫ne Neveu Kringelbach and Jerome Lewis
'We will not give our jal, jangal, zameen!' - Moral atmospheres of resistance and heterogenous ontologies in central India
Supervisors:听Katherine Homewood and Lewis Daly
Hermione Spriggs
Traps as artworks and artworks as traps
Supervisors:听Martin Holbraad and听David Burrows (Slade School of Fine Art)
Calendars and听power: Unravelling the political economy of Sikh timekeeping practices in Punjab
Supervisors:听Lucia Michelutti and Charles Stewart
Rose Taylor
Contested spaces: Negotiating Native American artistic identity in Los Angeles
Supervisors:听Haidy Geismar and Rafael Schacter
Campbell Thomson
Understanding Freedom Movement Activism in the United Kingdom
Supervisors:听Charles Stewart and Rik Adriaans
Alice Vittoria
Contested forests in the Congo Basin: Logging, conservation and the BaYaka
Supervisors:听Jerome Lewis and Lewis Daly
Beyond Huifang Jamaat: modernity and religiosity among Chinese Hui Muslims
Supervisors:听Daniel Miller and Kimberly Chong
Kelsey Weber
Practices of belonging: Identity among Polish Tatar women
Supervisors:听Ruth Mandel and听Micha艂 Murawski
Dungeons and Dragons: Narrativity, contingency and play in Singapore and New Zealand
Supervisors:听Daniel Miller and Haidy Geismar
Kunyu Xiang
Short video social media use in a Chinese county-level city undergoing urbanization
Supervisors:听Daniel Miller and听Rik Adriaans
Symbiotic species, symbiotic relationships: Pursuing more-than-human liveability on the Tibetan Plateau
Supervisors:听Lewis Daly and Emily Woodhouse