The AnthroSchools team is made up of staff and student volunteers from our undergraduate, Master's and PhD programmes.
Dr. Alison Macdonald FHEA (Head of Teaching, UCL Anthropology | Deputy Head of Department, Outreach and WP Tutor) alison.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Macdonald is a social anthropologist interested in the context of educational exclusion and young people in the UK. Research funded by a 2018 Grand Challenges Adolescent Lives Grant focuses on the experiences of young people who have previously been permanently excluded from state school and attended alterative learning provisions. This involved the production of a short collaborative documentary film, People Like Us, which traced the subjective reflections and aspirations of two young men post exclusion. More information about this project can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/adolescent-lives
Gabriella is currently pursuing her PhD in social anthropology at UCL. She is doing research on human-lion interactions in spaces of conservation in East Africa. Gabriella is eager to be a part of AnthroSchools, as Programme Officer, to share her passion for anthropology with students. She discovered her drive for teaching and WP when delivering workshops on environmental anthropology to high school students in Canada.
Dr. Adam Runacres AfHEA (Access Officer, Consultant for AnthroSchools, UCL Anthropology) adam.runacres.15@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Runacres is an anthropologist and consultant for the AnthroSchools Programme. A dedicated WP and public engagement specialist, he has delivered talks, run workshops and designed courses with different age groups on a variety of topics, including social anthropology, material culture, social media, tiger conservation and international development.
Delphine Mercier is Collections Curator in UCL Ethnography Collection. Before joining UCL, she taught in various schools in Paris at UG and MA levels, and had several experiences in cultural organisations. She first worked on cultural, economic and technical exchanges around the Mediterranean Sea during the Middle Ages, then on cultural heritage and sustainable development with a focus on Madagascar and Haiti. She is currently working on how we engage and interact with objects (PhD research, UCL STS).
Teaching resources
Resources for teachers to use as homework or in class to help achieve the specific learning outcomes for a specific topic.