Projects
Explore this collection of current research projects that offer a glimpse into the wide-ranging questions and fieldwork shaping research across UCL Anthropology.
- ASSA: Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing // A comparative global analysis of smartphones’ impact on mid-life and their implications for the field of health.
- Biosocial Lives of Birth Cohorts // Comparing the biosocial dynamics of birth cohorts in different countries.
- Can we go outside now // Studying the impact of climate unpredictability on children’s play and wellbeing in central London.
- Democratic Cultures // Developing global comparative research on the interlocking relations between politics, violence and crime.
- Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene // Expanding interdisciplinary engagement concerning how the Anthropocene epoch impacts on human health.
- EvoBias // Investigating ex-specific demography and the evolution of gender-biased harmful cultural practices.
- Music & Artificial Intelligence (MusAI) // Investigating the cultural implications of AI through critical studies examining its relationship with music.
- Orthodox Christian Material Ecology // Examining the relations between humans, the material world, and concepts within Orthodox Christianity.
- Residues and remains: an anthropology of practices around pregnancy endings // Exploring the practices around pregnancy endings and their remains, including acts of forgetting and remembering.
- Sociality of Tax // Studying tax systems as they are practiced within different cultural and historical contexts
Past Work
UCL Anthropology has a long and impactful history of shaping and defining anthropological discourse. Check out our research archive of past projects.
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