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ANTHROPOLOGY

"The most scientific of the humanities, the most humanistic of the sciences"

UCL Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects - from our evolution as a species to our relationship with the material world and our vast variety of social behaviours.

UCL is one of the world's top universities and our department is the highest ranked broad-based department in the UK.  Our research expertise covers over 60 countries and the whole human story from our earliest origins to today's digital age.

With over 30 academic staff, 400 students and 16 different courses on offer, UCL is a great place to learn the art and science of studying people.

Studying research people

UCL is consistently considered to be amongst the top universities in the world, as indicated by the QS World University Rankings (2012: rank 4, 2011: rank 7, 2009: rank 4).

In the Media

Birth Order

Ruth Mace was on Bringing Up Britain with Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4, looking at the evidence and experience of how important your place in the family pecking order is, and its potential consequences. Catch up the episode on BBC Radio 4.

Events

Global Citizenship

UCL Global Citizenship Programme


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Published: May 22, 2013 10:55:09 AM

Will Self

Travel, Imagination and Experience

A discussion on the pleasures of armchair anthropology and the suffering of travellers with
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Published: Apr 25, 2013 12:19:38 PM

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Asian Philosophical Encounters

This workshop hopes to bring together a range of themes, including ideas of sameness and difference, temporality, comparison, and cosmology, drawing on philosophical and religious texts from Chinese, Japanese, and inner Asian traditions to inform anthropological perspectives.  In particular, we are interested in discussing and exploring how and to what extent ideas from these traditions can help problematize ethnographic concerns with cross-cultural translation.
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Published: Apr 24, 2013 10:25:05 AM

Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart at the UCL Festival of the Arts

Michael Stewart (UCL Anthropology and founder of Open City Docs) will introduce Chronique d'un Été, a film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin 92' as part of the UCL Festival of the Arts on 7 May. More...

Published: Apr 23, 2013 1:56:15 PM

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Postgraduate Open Day

The Department of Anthropology invites all prospective candidates to the Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday, 12th June (from 1.15pm onwards). More...

Published: Apr 19, 2013 10:31:09 AM

News

New IBSc Film


Hear more about past and present students' experience of the IBSc programme in medical anthropology, including the journalist Max Pemberton, in this new promotional film. More...

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Eight Teaching Assistants Required

Would you like to earn approximately £670 (possibly a little more) helping to run the ‘People and the Sea’ Global Citizenship Programme which is being piloted for the first time this year at the end of this term. More...

Padma High

Padma Shri Award



Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at UCL has been awarded the Padma Shri on the occasion of Republic Day by the Government of India.
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Beatriz Aragon

Max Planck Award

Beatriz Aragon, a first year PhD student in the department, has been awarded a 2-year doctoral researcher position with stipend at the Max Planck Institute for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The award will help fund her PhD research about Roma minority and their interactions with healthcare services in Madrid.
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Temporary Lectureship in Evolutionary Anthropology


Original call for application available on the UCL Human Resources webpage.
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