Research
The distinctive research aims and profile of the Department reflect its long-standing commitment to a broad-based conception of Anthropology, combining the perspective and paradigms of biological anthropology, social anthropology, medical anthropology and material culture. For a brief account of the research conducted within and across these fields, visit the Research Overview of our web page.
The dynamism of our research agenda is reflected also in our thematically-led Research Platforms. Spanning across paradigms both within anthropology and beyond it on a trans-disciplinary basis, these represent the distinctive strands of research that are presently being pursued within UCL Anthropology’s vibrant research community.
Research Platforms
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The Centre for Digital Anthropology aims to be the leading research hub which locates digital technologies
in the rich context of human society and culture. Through teaching,
research and a dynamic series of regular events, we encourage a global
perspective on the development, structures, and
practices of digital technologies… Full description
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The Institute for
Subjectivity and Cultural Imagination (I-SCI) brings together anthropologists working on the role
of the imagination in diverse social and cultural scales. Using
ethnographically-based
insights, we seek to refigure the ways in which we, as social
scientists, imagine the social and cultural world, and ultimately to
extend the anthropological imagination itself... Full description
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The Laboratory for
the Ethnography of the UK (LabUK) provides
a home for versatile ethnographic research, exploring through an
anthropological lens cultural, political, ethnic, medical, visual and
material aspects of living in Britain.
Taking Britain as a subject of ethnographic enquiry, we seek to bring
anthropological insight into broader public debates about contemporary
British society and culture and their future… Full description
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Much of the Department's research cuts across the above groupings and is conducted in the context of thematically-oriented research forums. These forge interdisciplinary collaborations that link the Department of Anthropology with other departments in UCL, as well as with collaborators in other universities both within the UK and internationally.
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Our approximately 100 research students form a vital part of the intellectual life of the Anthropology Department at UCL. In addition to their relationship to individual supervisors, and as well as attending one or more of the Department's five weekly research seminars, research students are expected to participate in regular Reading and Research Groups (RRGs). Bringing students and staff together to exchange ideas on themes of mutual interest, our RRGs draw their membership from all parts of the Department, as well as welcoming participants from other UCL Departments and other London Colleges.
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Major current and recent research initiatives at the Department of Anthropology from UCL.
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The UCL Anthropology Working Papers Series demonstrates the full range of research carried out in the Department of Anthropology at UCL. It includes working papers by academic staff, post-docs and research students, as well as revised versions of the best dissertations produced by our undergraduate students and students on our taught Masters' courses.
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The complete list of the publications of academic and research staff from the Department of Anthropology at UCL.
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