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List of current MPhil/PhD Students and Thesis Titles
Biological Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor(s) |
| Aalaa Al-Shamahi | Christophe Soligo | |
| Megan Arnot | Evolution of the Menopause | Ruth Mace |
| Nicole Barber | Phylogeny, form and function of primate tarsal bones | Christophe Soligo and Anjali Goswami (NHM) |
| Paul Barnes | People, parks and Attenborough's echidna: The political ecology of conservation in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua | Katherine Homewood and Samuel Turvey (Institute of Zoology, ZSL) |
| Eva Brandl | Cultural transmission, teaching, and children's development in Vanuatu | Ruth Mace and Emily Emmott |
| Matilda Brindle | Autosexual Behaviour in Primates: Form, Function and Phylogeny | Volker Sommer and Guy Cowlishaw |
| Sarah Brooke | Katherine Homewood | |
| Yara Shennan-Farpon | Using regional scenarios and modelling to identify pathways towards forest restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest | Prof Katherine Homewood (UCL), Prof Ken Norris (ZSL Institute of Zoology) |
| Hester Hanegraef | Facial morphology of Australopithecus afarensis: exploring intraspecific variation in juman evolution | Fred Spoor (NHM) and Christophe Soligo |
| Michael Hanks | A model of human evolution in Europe | María Martinón-Torres |
| Shruti Kamath | Virtual Analysis of the Lower Premolar Crown Morphology of the Atapuerca Hominins – Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Inferences for the Early and Middle Pleistocene in Europe | María Martinón-Torres and Christophe Soligo |
| 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) |
| Helen Muller | Understanding the socio-ecological impacts of the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana | Emily Woodhouse, Marcus Rowcliffe (Institute of Zoology, ZSL) |
| Vittoria Roatti | Understanding constraints on horizontal and vertical information transmission in baboons: Implications for the evolution of culture | Volker Sommer and Alecia Carter |
| 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 |
| Hanzhi (May) Zhang | Diversification and Extinction Processes in Cultural Evolution | Ruth Mace |
Material Culture
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Rosalie Allain | 'The gold is gone': Techniques of resource making and value transformations amongst the Gbaya of Cameroon | Ludovic Coupaye and Jerome Lewis |
| 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) |
| Prasad Boradkar | The Social Life of Copper in Tambat Ali, Pune, India [working title] | Adam Drazin and Suzanne Küchler |
| 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 |
| Chloe Dominique | Queer sex work(er): Identity as Praxis | Ludovic Coupaye and Victor Buchli |
| Hui Lok Hang | Living with Butsudan: Finding Care in Japanese Homes | Adam Drazin, Rebecca Empson |
| Emilie Glazer | Infrastructures of water and care: examining the interface of water safety, systems of care and technoscience in the Anthropocene | Hannah Knox, Sahra Gibbon and Jerome Lewis |
| Jenia Gorbanenko | The International Space Station and the Russian Orthodox Church: extra-terrestrial worlding of the Russian Orthodox Christians | Victor Buchli, Timothy Carroll |
| 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 |
| Emma Tillfors | Creativity, Solidarity, and Transnational Economic Resilience in a Diasporic Fashion Industry | Susanne Kuechler 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 |
| Annamaria Dall'Anese | The Work of the Visually Impaires: An Ethnography of Visually Impaired People in an English Metropolitan City | Joe Calabrese and Christopher Pinney |
| Elizabeth Elliott | A medical landscape in Laos | Joe Calabrese, Michael Heinrich (Pharmacy) |
| Ben Epstein | Disaster Mental Health: Research and Practice in Japan | Aaron Parkhurst, Joe Calabrese, Roland Littlewood |
| Maria Larrain | Untangling Tongue-tie – Cutting Through the Medicalisation of Breastfeeding in the UK | Sahra Gibbon, Aaron Parkhurst and Charlotte Faircloth (IOE) |
| 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 |
| Cristina Perez | Childlessness and parenthood in Colombia: Exploring changing family forms in a context of socio-demographic transition | Sara Randall and Lucio Vinicius |
| Ciaran Tobin | Tibetan Mind Science and Western Mental Health: A Cultural Congruence Framework | Joseph Calabrese and Joanna Cook |
| Rebecca Williams | The limits of care: Border implementation at the end of life | Sahra Gibbon and James Wilson (Philosophy) |
Social Anthropology
| Name | Title | Supervisor |
| Toyin Agbetu | The gentrification of protest? A study of activism in East London | Haidy Geismar, Michael Stewart and Catalin Brylla (UWL) |
| 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 |
| Linguistic Anthropology of Uzbekistan | Alexandra Pillen | |
| Carolina Comandulli | Vision, thought and action in an Amazonian frontier: contemporary life and innovation in an Ashaninka village | Jerome Lewis |
| Alonso Zamora Corona | Time and power among the K'iche' Maya | Martin Holbraad |
| 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) |
| Laura Haapio-Kirk | Ageing with Smartphones in Japan | Daniel Miller and Inge Daniels (co-supervisor, University of Oxford), Adam Drazin |
| Simon Hoyte | Of Gorillas and Grandfathers: From bioimperial to biocultural conservation amongst Baka hunter-gatherers of Cameroon | Jerome Lewis; Emily Woodhouse; Muki Haklay |
| Izzy Gibbin | Alex Pillen and Nick Wilson | |
| Lydia Gibson | Where the Endangered Things Are: parrots, power, and the value of knowledge in conservation spaces | Katherine Homewood and Hannah Knox |
| Farhana Hoque | The journal of cultural identity in Chittagong Hill Tracts: A transgenerational approach | Roland Littlewood and Susanne Küchler |
| Fiacha O'Dowda | Ecologies of Desire: Constituting Life in the Forests of North East Madagascar | Jerome Lewis and Ludovic Coupaye |
| Johanna Perez | The spirits' power: Violence and magic in Colombia Eastern Plains region | Lucia Michelutti and Martin Holbraad |
| 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 |
| Kaya Uzel | Why Burkina hasn’t existed yet. Revolutionary Paradoxes and the Political Imagination in Burkina Faso | Martin Holbraad and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (UCL African Studies) |
| 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 |