News http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news/rss admin 2011-05-15T22:40:44Z New IBSc Film http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/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. Man Yang 2013-05-17T13:37:57Z Eight Teaching Assistants Required http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/summer-postgraduate-tas 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. Man Yang 2013-05-02T12:45:41Z Padma Shri Award http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/padma-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. Man Yang 2013-04-23T09:37:47Z Max Planck Award http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/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. Man Yang 2013-04-16T12:52:57Z Temporary Lectureship in Evolutionary Anthropology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/temporary-lectureship Original call for application available on the UCL Human Resources webpage . Man Yang Sorin Gog 2013-04-10T18:58:31Z The Big Ig Nobel UK Show - with Volker Sommer Performing http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/improbable-research Professor Volker Sommer has been honoured with an invitation to perform at this year's Ig Nobel UK show - under the time-honoured motto "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK". Man Yang 2013-03-12T17:30:34Z Poster Competition Won by Anthropology Student Kathleen Bryson http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/post-competition UCL ran its 2012/13 Graduate School Research Poster Competition on 25th and 26th February. The event is intended to enable graduate students to advertise their innovative research. Overall, 247 posters were displayed in the North & South Cloisters. Man Yang 2013-03-01T16:04:17Z Mary Douglas Awards http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Mary_Douglas_Awards The Anthropology department is delighted to announce that it will be awarding a number of Mary Douglas Awards, collectively worth £32,000, to students applying for our Master’s programmes for entry in September 2013.  These fee waivers, worth between £1000 -£ 4000 pounds depending on the programme, will be available across all eight of the masters programmes and will be awarded based on the merit of individual applications.  Man Yang 2013-02-05T17:07:27Z The latest issue of ANTHROPOLITAN is available online http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/newsletter7 The start of the academic year 2012/13 has been hugely positive for staff and students alike. We were joined by four new members of staff, all of them appointed to entirely new posts. This is the best indication that our Department is thriving, able to provide a hugely vibrant atmosphere that assures excellence in teaching and learning. Newly appointed in the second quarter of last academic year were also three members of the administrative team, enabling us to provide the very best service to our students and support to our staff. Man Yang 2012-12-14T15:58:02Z Research in the Media: Anthropology of Food http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/research_in_the_media Continuing her work on the anthropology of food, Dr Kaori O’Connor appeared 11 th September on the Great British Bake-Off programme, the popularity of which reveals a growing interest in baking by men, talking about American pies and food as identity. She will shortly be appearing on the Hairy Bikers series discussing eggs in traditional British cuisine, and in the Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner series with Clarissa Dickson-Wright, speaking on the history and cultural significance of breakfast cereals. Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-09-14T09:51:38Z UCL Anthropology Research in the Media: ‘Why, as people get richer, do they have fewer children?’ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/UCL_Anthropology_Research_in_the_Media Research carried out by Dr David Lawson from UCL Anthropology in collaboration with Dr Anna Goodman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Professor Ilona Koupil (Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm) has been reported in the media, including articles in the Economist and New Scientist. Their research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , tests current theories of why, as human populations get richer, do they start having less children? Man Yang 2012-08-31T11:38:57Z Call for Papers - Cancer Cultures http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Cancer_Cultures A two day International Event at Anthropology Department, UCL on 6th to 7th November 2012 Man Yang 2012-08-20T10:34:43Z Call for Submissions - Audible Observatories http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/audible_observatories preview Ethnographic Terminalia seeks submissions for Audible Observatories , an exhibition to be held in San Francisco in November 2012. Artist-researchers, collaborators, anthropologists and other scholars working in art are encouraged to submit their proposals prior to July 15, 2012 . Man Yang 2012-06-28T09:59:23Z Anthropology Students Won Campus MovieFest http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/campus_movie_fest Congratulations to Joshua Lipworth and Megan Laws (3rd Year Anthropology) who have won the world’s largest student film festival, the Campus MovieFest, leading to their film also being shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festivals Short Film Prize. Man Yang 2012-06-26T11:42:07Z The Latest Issue of UCL Anthro News is available online http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/anthro_news6 The academic year 2011/12 has been hugely positive for staff and students alike. The year started with four new lecturers joining us and it has ended with a further four new staff appointments who will join us at the start of the new academic year. Three of these new appointments are entirely new posts, a fact that is the best indication that our Department is thriving, able to provide a hugely vibrant atmosphere that assures excellence in teaching and learning. Newly appointed were also three members of the administrative team, enabling us to provide the very best service to our students and support to our staff. Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-06-21T12:59:30Z AWARD http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/award Professor Volker Sommer of the Department of Anthropology has been awarded the North of England Zoological Society's highest honour, the Gold Medal, for outstanding lifetime achievement in the fields of natural science, conservation and the environment. Previous recipients have included Sir David Attenborough, Dame Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey. The ceremony is to be held on 06 June at Chester Zoo. Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-05-28T22:28:42Z Anthropology in London Day 2012 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Anthropology_in_London_2012 Date : Monday 11 June 2012 from 9.30am Venue : UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW Man Yang 2012-05-14T13:26:20Z INDIA: A VENERATION NATION? http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/india_a_veneration_nation Department of Anthropology, University College London Tuesday, 12 June 2012, from 10:00 to 17:30 Conference Schedule Conference Abstracts Conference Poster Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-04-23T22:37:41Z Departmental MRes Studentship http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/departmental-mres-studentship Please note the following studentship is only available to current UCL Anthropology students. Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-04-19T09:37:05Z What it means to be human http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/What_it_means_to_be_human Ruth Mace , Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology in UCL Anthropology, took part in a panel discussion at The Royal Society on ‘What it means to be human’. Man Yang 2012-03-19T10:36:40Z Ethnographic Object Analysis - Short Course http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Ethnographic_Object_Analysis-Short_Course Do you ever visit museums and feel that you lack the specialist knowledge, skills and experience to critically analyse and evaluate ethnographic objects and displays? This training course, run by the UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies , is designed to provide the skills necessary to do this. Man Yang 2012-03-15T12:05:16Z Call for Papers: Anthropology in London Conference 2012 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/call_for_papers_al_conference_2012 Organised by UCL and University of East London in collaboration with Brunel University, SOAS, Goldsmiths and LSE, the conference is now calling for panel proposals and individual papers. Man Yang 2012-03-13T12:13:03Z Dr Kaori O'Connor Won Pasold Prize 2011 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Pasold_Prize_2011 Dr Kaori O'Connor , a Senior Research Fellow in UCL Anthropology , has been awarded the Pasold Prize 2011, for the best paper published in Textile History in 2011, for her paper entitled: Man Yang 2012-03-12T11:06:26Z Research Associate in Anthropology http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/Research_Associate_in_Anthropology There is a vacancy in the department for a Research Associate in Anthropology (Ref:1237707). Man Yang 2012-03-06T10:46:51Z ExCiteS http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/anthropology-news/extreme_citizen_science Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) Research Group - Launched at Citizen Cyber Science Summit 2012 . UCL Anthropology’s collaboration with UCL Engineering officially launched at the Royal Geographic Society on February 16 th . Watch talks from leading figures exploring the possibilities of citizen cyber science. The Launch is reported in Nature  . Read about it on Andrea Wiggins blog. There a range of reports on talks at http://gridtalk-project.blogspot.com/ Man Yang Leslie Aiello 2012-02-19T23:30:58Z