Anthropology student Bobine Notenboom has been awarded a SeNSS scholarship

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…

Cultural Politics on Tour – Across Northern Ireland

As part of our second year Cultural Politics on Tour module, students complete an expense-paid trip to Northern Ireland in order to apply the theories of cultural production, consumption, domination and resistance they learn to the ‘real-world’, culminating in a reflection piece. This week, our featured essay is by K. Gratia Mittelman. Gratia’s bio: K. Gratia Mittelman is a Read More…

CRESIDA doctoral dissertation on the convergence between geology and society

Jonathan Karkut, a CRESIDA student, has successfully completed his PhD Viva based on his work on the anthropology of public policy within the context of the UNESCO global geoparks network. Having qualified first as a geologist (including experience in the fields of exploration, mining and in the British Geological Survey), then gaining post-graduate and professional training Read More…