Research students

The students contributing to our vibrant research community.

Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology | Material Culture | Medical Anthropology | Social Anthropology

Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology

Aalaa Al-Shamahi

Supervisor: Christophe Soligo

Nicole Barber

Phylogeny, form and function of primate tarsal bones
Supervisors: Christophe Soligo and Anjali Goswami (Natural History Museum)

Sonia Dhanda

Roots, routes, and regulations: ayurvedic herbal trade in the UK
Supervisors: Emily Woodhouse, Lewis Daly and Alex Antonelli (Royal Botanic Gardens)

Gabriella Santini

Herder-lion entanglements in the Maasai Mara: An exploration of conservation
Supervisors: Emily Woodhouse and Sarah Durant

Anna Westland

Intraspecific variation of cranial morphology in Hominoidea
Supervisors: Christophe Soligo and Aida Gomez-Robles

Material Culture

Maria Angel

Colombia’s digital orphans and childless parents: Maintaining sentiments across national borders
Supervisors: Susanne Küechler and Allen Abramson

Dan Artus

The epidemiology of truth: A multi-method ethnography of vaccination in the Republic of Ireland
Email: Hannah Knox, Aaron Parkhurst and Heidi Larson

Harshadha Balasubramanian

An anthropology of immersive media in Bristol, UK
Supervisors: Haidy Geismar and Eleanor Dare (Royal College of Art)

Dave Cook

Digital nomads and imagined worlds of work
Supervisors: Hannah Knox and Adam Drazin

Elena Z. Dennie

Pnevma resonance: Performance art making in Athens, Greece
Supervisors: Ludovic Coupaye and Rafael Schacter

Chloe Dominique

Queer sex work(er): Identity as praxis
Supervisors: Ludovic Coupaye and Victor Buchli

Hui Lok Hang

Living with Butsudan: Finding care in Japanese homes
Supervisors: Adam Drazin and Rebecca Empson

Vincent Hasselbach

Archiving 1971: contemporary circulations of photography from the Bangladesh Liberation War
Supervisors: Rafael Schacter and Christopher Pinney

Alice Riddell

Citizen App and the Digital Panopticon: Lateral surveillance and live crime tracking in New York City neighbourhoods
Supervisors: Daniel Miller, Hannah Knox and Haidy Geismar

Camilla Sundwall

Material relationships: From industrial design to every day life
Supervisors: Susanne Küchler and Adam Drazin

Medical Anthropology

Connie Jones

Communing with the spirit world: An Ethnographic study amongst contemporary spiritualists in the UK
Supervisors: Joanna Cook and Timothy Carroll

Maria Larrain

Untangling tongue-tie – cutting through the medicalisation of breastfeeding in the UK
Supervisors: Sahra Gibbon, Aaron Parkhurst and Charlotte Faircloth (IOE)

Rosie Mathers

Is there a physiological glass ceiling? A biosocial exploration of women, work, and health
Supervisors: Sahra Gibbon, Anne McMunn and Emily Emmott

Jarrard O'Brien

Intergenerational Impacts: How colonisation impacts experience of healthcare
Supervisors: Sahra Gibbon and Joseph Calabrese

Rebecca Williams

The limits of care: Justifiable forms of exclusion and neglect in English healthcare systems
Supervisors: Sahra Gibbon and James Wilson (Philosophy)

Social Anthropology

Lindsay Bishop

Smoke, smell and skins: Hierarchy in heavy metal
Supervisors: Susanne Küchler, Allen Abramson and Titus Hjelm

The cultures political participation in UKIP (U.K. Independence Party). An Ethnographic exploration of English Nationalism in a coastal town in South East Essex
Supervisors: Lucia Michelutti and Ana Carolina Barreto Balthazar

Catherine Clarke

Conservation politics and Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Colombian Amazon: The negotiation and implementation of area-based conservation targets
Supervisors: Katherine Homewood and Lewis Daly