Our third year student Bobine Notenboom has been awarded a studentship through the SeNSS (South East Network for Social Sciences) Doctoral Training Partnership scheme to pursue a Master’s and Doctoral dissertation for her project titled ‘The Sacred Volcano and the Extremely Large Telescope: Structural Violence and Conflicting Notions of Pollution at Mauna a Wākea, Hawai’i’. Read More…
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Forthcoming course on Human-Animal Studies
Our postdoctoral fellows Ricardo Ontillera-Sanchez and Giovanna Capponi are glad to present Human-Animal Studies: An Introduction for Postgraduate Students. This RSDP course will contribute to a better understanding of one of the most rapidly growing international fields of research. Specifically, in demonstrating how ethnographic research is one of the tools which allows exploration of the Read More…
The anthropology of facial hair
In our first year Key Skills in Anthropology module, students are introduced to the fundamental academic skills necessary to succeed in university and post-university employment. As part of the course, students are asked to write an essay on the topic of hair from a social and biological anthropological perspective. This week we are featuring a Read More…
HIV/AIDS & Global Health: Social responsibility and Stigmatisation of Sex Workers in Ruili, China
Our third year HIV/AIDS and Global Health module, which explores broader anthropological questions around HIV/AIDS, illness and healing, sexual and reproductive relationships, and global health. As part of the module students are required to design a HIV awareness poster or research proposal. This week, we are featuring a research proposal by Nanchang Gadong on HIV Read More…
Anthropology of Life & Death: Conceptions of life and death amongst Hawaiians
As part of our third year Anthropology of Life & Death module, students explore the question of life, in its broadest sense, from a variety of anthropological perspectives. This week, we are featuring a student essay from the module by Bobine Notenboom. Bobine’s bio: I am a third-year anthropology student from the Netherlands. Throughout my Read More…
Being Human: The anthropology of menstruation
As part of our first year Being Human module, students write an essay where they consider social and biological anthropological perspectives on a key topic in anthropology. This week, our featured essay is by Vlada Sosis. Vlada’s bio: I am a first year anthropology student, originally from Ukraine. After I finished a Fine Arts degree Read More…
Katerina Hatzikidi’s talk on quilombo heritage politics in Brazil
Spotlight on… Giovanna Capponi
Position: Postdoctoral fellow, ‘From Feed the Birds, To Do Not Feed the Animals’ Bio: Born in Italy, Giovanna obtained her first degree in Anthropology at the University of Bologna. She then moved to London to study a MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, and she continued her PhD in Social Anthropology at the Read More…
Hidden Anthropology Gems V: A conversation with Eres Ciencia
Welcome to the fifth post of the series. On this occasion, we have decided to remain far from our silo of social anthropologists to have an interdisciplinary conversation about ‘scientific dissemination’ with the project Eres Ciencia. Eres Ciencia (Spanish for “You are Science”) was created in 2018 by Maite Pérez Cidoncha, a biochemist and virologist Read More…
(Re)introducing our new postdoctoral fellow: Ricardo Ontillera
We are delighted that Ricardo Ontillera, who gained his PhD with us in 2020, is returning to spend a year (starting this autumn) as a SeNSS Post-Doctoral Fellow. He will have Professor Garry Marvin and Professor Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths) as his mentors. During this time, he and Garry will work on a project exploring the Read More…
