About Ucl Anthropology
UCL Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects: from our evolution as a species, to our relationship with the material world, and our vast variety of social practices and cultural forms.
Ucl Anthropology Description
UCL Anthropology studies humanity in all its aspects - from our evolution as a species to our relationship with the material world and our vast variety of social behaviours.
UCL is one of the world's top universities and our department is the highest ranked broad-based department in the UK. Our research expertise covers over 60 countries and the whole human story from our earliest origins to today's digital age.
With over 30 academic staff, 400 students and 16 different courses on offer, UCL is a great place to learn the art and science of studying people.
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Congratulations to everyone who recieved their A-Level results today and will be heading to UCL Anthropology in September - we can't wait to welcome you!
Good luck to all students awaiting their exam results. For useful information about A Level Results day and answers to your frequently asked questions, visit our website: http://bit.ly/uclresultsday
MSc Social Anthropology student Savannah Mandel wrote this for the AAA Science and Technology blog...
PhD researcher Dave Cook explores what drives digital nomads to work remotely while travelling and why some people can tire of a seemingly idyllic lifestyle...
Ask the Apes
Turner Contemporary, Margate Saturday 21 July, 2.30pm
... Artists Marcus Coates and Feral Practice will be joined by Volker Sommer, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of London, whose research focuses on primates' social and sexual behaviour, cognition and rituals; and Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher, primate behavioural ecologist, and expert in wild chimpanzee behavior.
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Congratulations to all the Anthropology staff who have been successfully promoted in the Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Fellow Promotions 2017-18...
Professors:
Dr Rebecca Empson ... Dr Haidy Geismar Dr Ruth Mandel Dr Lucia Michelutti Dr Christophe Soligo
Associate Professors:
Dr Marc Brightman Dr Hannah Knox Dr Alexandra Pillen
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Open City Docs School is delighted to announce a number of scholarships (in the form of partial fee waivers) for places on any of the four pathways on the UCL MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film.
Antonia Lee, and Margot Dahinden, students of the Anthropology of War course, UCL were on Radio 4 on June 26th 2018, 9 am. Their questions following the Reith Lecture by Prof Margaret MacMillan on ‘War and Humanity’ can be heard on the BBC Podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7f390 #play, (at 33:46 and 39:26). This will be broadcast again on Radio 4 this Saturday at 22:15. Previous podcasts since the 1948 Reith Lecture by Bertrand Russell on ‘Authority and the Individual’, are available via the BBC’s Archive https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9 /episodes/guide…
This new MA programme will draw on experts in public diplomacy, journalism and advocacy including former diplomats. It combines an innovative mix of theory and practice, inter-disciplinarity, diplomacy and communication, combining modules from different departments (Anthropology and Political Science) and engagement with both academics and practitioners.
Paul Zhou, 2017 MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film graduate, won this year’s Student Award at the 2018 One World Media Awards...
Here is the video if you missed the panel discussion on Refugee Temporalities and the Ethnographic Method, held in the department on Friday 9th March 2018.
Virtual Postgraduate Open Day today - please post your questions at: https://app2.sli.do/event/gs1u5zxq/ask
The second Q&A panel session is at 4.45pm tomorrow.
Can't attend the PGT Open Day tomorrow? We have scheduled two Q&A panel sessions which you can watch online. The first session is at 11am tomorrow.
Jerome Lewis collected the Institutional Leadership Award on behalf of ExCiteS (the Extreme Citizen Science Research group) at the last night's ceremony...
Deniz Salali wrote a blog post about food traditions in Eurasia for UCL Food Metabolism and Society network...