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List of current MPhil/PhD Students and Thesis Titles
Biological Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| Aalaa Al-Shamahi | Christophe Soligo | |
| Nicole Barber | Phylogeny, form and function of primate tarsal bones | Christophe Soligo and Anjali Goswami (NHM) |
| Sarah Brooke | Katherine Homewood | |
| Yuan Chen | Comparative study of social organisation and work burden in China | Ruth Mace |
| Sonia Dhanda | Roots, routes, and regulations: ayurvedic herbal trade in the UK | Emily Woodhouse, Lewis Daly, Alex Antonelli (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) |
| Erhao Ge | The evolution of religious celibacy | Ruth Mace |
| Laura Kor | Plant conservation in Colombia: Integrating ecological approaches and local knowledge for the protection of useful plant species | Katherine Homewood, Terry Dawson (KCL), Mauricio Diazgranados (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) |
| Vittoria Roatti | Understanding constraints on horizontal and vertical information transmission in baboons: Implications for the evolution of culture | Volker Sommer and Alecia Carter |
| Gabriella Santini | Herder-Lion Entanglements in the Maasai Mara: An Exploration of Conservation | Emily Woodhouse and Sarah Durant |
| Kristen Steele | Eel fisheries from local to global: Drivers of exploitation and prospects for sustainability | Caroline Garaway and Katherine Homewood |
| Anna Westland | Intraspecific variation of cranial morphology in Hominoidea | Christophe Soligo and Aida Gomez-Robles |
Material Culture
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Maria Angel | Colombia’s Digit@l Orph@ns and Childless P@rents: Maintaining sentiments across national borders | Susanne Küechler and Allen Abramson |
| Dan Artus | The Epidemiology of Truth: A Multi-method Ethnography of Vaccination in the Republic of Ireland | Hannah Knox, Aaron Parkhurst, Heidi Larson |
| Harshadha Balasubramanian | An Anthropology of Immersive Media in Bristol, UK | Haidy Geismar and Eleanor Dare (Royal College of Art) |
| Dave Cook | Digital Nomads and Imagined Worlds of Work | Hannah Knox and Adam Drazin |
| Nicole Cristi | Situated ‘technologies’: Technical objects, technical systems and technical activities on the category of ‘tecnología’ on spaces of digital fabrication in the central valley of Chile | Ludovic Coupaye |
| Elena Z. Dennie | Pnevma Resonance: Performance Art Making in Athens, Greece | Ludovic Coupaye and Rafael Schacter |
| Chloe Dominique | Queer sex work(er): Identity as Praxis | Ludovic Coupaye and Victor Buchli |
| Juan Forero Duarte | Citizenships of peace: An ethnographic study of digital education projects in post-conflict Colombia | Hannah Knox, Tone Walford |
| Jenia Gorbanenko | Space exploration in the Russian Orthodox Christian perspective | Victor Buchli, Timothy Carroll |
| Hui Lok Hang | Living with Butsudan: Finding Care in Japanese Homes | Adam Drazin, Rebecca Empson |
| Vincent Hasselbach | Archiving 1971: contemporary circulations of photography from the Bangladesh Liberation War | Rafael Schacter and Christopher Pinney |
| Sarica Robyn Balsari-Palsule | Occlusion and Visibility: Visual Representation and the Mumbai Parsi community | Christopher Pinney and Rafael Schacter |
| Alice Riddell | Citizen App and the Digital Panopticon: Lateral Surveillance and Live Crime Tracking in New York City Neighbourhoods | Daniel Miller, Hannah Knox and 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 | Hannah Knox and Lewis Daly |
| Camilla Sundwall | Material relationships: From industrial design to every day life | Susanne Küchler and Adam Drazin |
| Francisco Vergara | Andean Rhythms. Time, Practices and identities among Central Andean Mestizos | Chris Tilley and Ludovic Coupaye |
Anthropology of Outer-Space: Worlding at JAXA | Victor Buchli, Aaron Parkhurst and Denis Vidal (EHESS/CNRS) |
Medical Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| Paula Bronson | Living with chronic pain in rural Nepal: a clinical ethnography on resilience | Joe Calabrese and Aaron Parkhurst |
| Ben Epstein | Disaster Mental Health: Research and Practice in Japan | Aaron Parkhurst, Joe Calabrese, Roland Littlewood |
| Connie Jones | Communing with the Spirit World: An Ethnographic Study Amongst Contemporary Spiritualists in the UK | Joanna Cook and Timothy Carroll |
| Maria Larrain | Untangling Tongue-tie – Cutting Through the Medicalisation of Breastfeeding in the UK | Sahra Gibbon, Aaron Parkhurst and Charlotte Faircloth (IOE) |
| Xiaolin Li | The menstrual body reimagined: menstruation, digital period-tracking, and sexuality in China | Daniel Miller and Vivienne Lo |
| Rosie Mathers | Is there a physiological glass ceiling? A biosocial exploration of women, work, and health | Sahra Gibbon, Anne McMunn and Emily Emmott |
| Katrine Nohr | Maternal Health and Human Rights | David Napier |
| Jarrard O'Brien | Intergenerational Impacts: How colonisation impacts experience of healthcare | Sahra Gibbon and Joseph Calabrese |
| Joseph Roman Tulasiewicz | Can't Stop? Understanding Internet Addiction and its Treatment | Joanna Cook and Tone Walford |
| Rebecca Williams | The Limits of Care: Justifiable forms of exclusion and neglect in English healthcare systems | Sahra Gibbon and James Wilson (Philosophy) |
Social Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Charles Beach | Frontera Combustible: Conceptualising sovereign powers through the experiences of petrol smugglers on Colombia's border with Venezuela | Lucia Michelutti and Rebecca Empson |
| Lindsay Bishop | Smoke, smell and skins: Hierarchy in heavy metal | Susanne Küchler, Allen Abramson and Titus Hjelm |
| Amy Buckley | The cultures political participation in UKIP (U.K. Independence Party). An Ethnographic exploration of English Nationalism in a coastal town in South East Essex | Lucia Michelutti and Ana Carolina Barreto Balthazar |
| Linguistic Anthropology of Uzbekistan | Alexandra Pillen | |
| Catherine Clarke | Conservation politics and Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Colombian Amazon: The negotiation and implementation of area-based conservation targets | Katherine Homewood and Lewis Daly |
| Yichao Du | Matter or Not: Non-CPC Political Parties in Contemporary China | Kimberly Chong and Lucia Michelutti |
| David Edgar | Good Bodies: Affective Economies of Fitness in “Pre-Post-Conflict” Urban Colombia | Aaron Parkhurt, Miranda Sheild Johansson and Lucia Michelutti |
| Sabine de Graaf | A future in the making: Waiting, hoping and networking. A research project on Syrian refugees in Greece navigating the uncertainties of their situation | Ruth Mandel and Henrietta Moore (IGP) |
| Simon Hoyte | Of Gorillas and Grandfathers: From bioimperial to biocultural conservation amongst Baka hunter-gatherers of Cameroon | Jerome Lewis; Emily Woodhouse; Muki Haklay |
| Jen Logan | 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 | Joanna Cook and Timothy Carroll |
| Fiacha O'Dowda | Ecologies of Desire: Constituting Life in the Forests of North East Madagascar | Jerome Lewis and Ludovic Coupaye |
| Eric Orlowski | ‘Moving too fast and breaking the wrong things?’ – Imagined futures, posthuman emergence, and risk thinking among proponents of human augmentation technologies in Sweden | Charles Stewart and Tone Walford |
| Andrew Sanger | Re-enchanting the Earth: Dance as an Environmental Practice in the United Kingdom | Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jerome Lewis |
| Sahib Singh | 'We will not give our jal, jangal, zameen!' - Moral atmospheres of resistance and heterogenous ontologies in central India | Katherine Homewood and Lewis Daly |
| Hermione Spriggs | Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps | Martin Holbraad and David Burrows (Slade School of Fine Art) |
| Rafael Fuentes Tarin | Calendars & Power: Unravelling the political economy of Sikh timekeeping practices in Punjab | Lucia Michelutti and Charles Stewart |
| Rose Taylor | Contested Spaces: Negotiating Native American Artistic Identity in Los Angeles | Haidy Geismar and Rafael Schacter |
| Campbell Thomson | Understanding Freedom Movement Activism in the United Kingdom | Charles Stewart and Rik Adriaans |
| Alice Vittoria | Contested Forests in the Congo Basin: Logging, Conservation and the BaYaka | Jerome Lewis and Lewis Daly |
| Haichao Wang | Beyond Huifang Jamaat: modernity and religiosity among Chinese Hui Muslims | Daniel Miller and Kimberly Chong |
| Kelsey Weber | Practices of Belonging: Identity Among Polish Tatar Women | Ruth Mandel and Michał Murawski |
| Kellynn Wee | Dungeons and Dragons: Narrativity, contingency and play in Singapore and New Zealand | Daniel Miller and Haidy Geismar |
| Kunyu Xiang | Short video social media use in a Chinese county-level city undergoing urbanization | Daniel Miller and Rik Adriaans |
| Bo Yang | Symbiotic Species, Symbiotic Relationships: Pursuing More-than-human Liveability on the Tibetan Plateau | Lewis Daly and Emily Woodhouse |