Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
- Alastair Lomas
- Aleksandra Szymczyk - Political subjectivity, local governance, memory and heritage, Poland
- Alexandra Tomkins
- Angelique Michaels - Anthropology of infrastructure, urban studies, spatial politics, post-apartheid Cape Town
- Anna Pozzali
- Ben French - Digital Anthropology, Social Media, Selfhood, Imaginations
- Ben Houghton
- Catriona Blackburn
- Ciaran Cowham - Value, Agroecology, Food, Britain
- Devan Perry
- Edward Ephithite Lindholm - Anthropology of Water, Social Movements, Futures, Latin America
- Elizabeth Woods
- Elsayed Elsehamy Abdelhamid
- Fiona Potter
- Gabriel Marques Camargo - Afro-religions, Urban Anthropology, Latin American Studies
- Genevieve Collins - Arctic Anthropology, Climate, Social Studies of Outer Space, Sound, Creative Methods
- Hanna Oosterveen - Arctic, Science and Technology Studies, climate change, uncertainty
- Inci Unal - Visual anthropology, climate activism, environmental justice, creative methods
- Jennifer Moore - Anthropology of development, East Africa, menstrual health and hygiene, gender
- Jonathan Craig - Anthropology of Britain, migration, hospitality, neo-nationalism
- Laura Di Pasquale - Disruption, Co-Creative Methods, Illness, Visual Anthropology
- Laura Thurmann
- Lojine Hanoun
- Lydia Donohue - Visual anthropology, materiality, liveliness, craft
- Maidul Alam (Rasha) Chaklader - Care, Kinship, Gender, Commodification of Eldercare, Anthropology of South Asia
- Maria Jordan Edwards - Andes, foodways, food security, rural development, peasant farmers
- Marie Kerguelen
- Mariela Sánchez-Belmont Montiel
- Maryam Fouad - Gender and Sexuality, Egypt, Confinement, the State
- Mathieu Lamontagne-Cumiford - Arctic Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cartography, Place-making
- Melissa Crane - Britain, work, class, illegality
- Natalie Wood - Play, political economy, temporality, anthropology of Britain
- Nourhan Maher
- Panos Achniotis - Anthropology of Southern Europe, urban studies, neighbourhood-making, post-crisis
- Rebecca Appleton - Poetry, Co-creative and Visual methods, Literary Anthropology, Anthropology of the Middle East
- Rebecca Higginbottom - Infertility, selfhood, imagined futures, creative and sensory methods
- Salma Moustafa Khalil
- Santiago Irribarra Palet - Urban Indigeneity, more-than-human relations, good life, nativeness
- Seren Thomas - Anthropology of britain, language revival, belonging, nationalism
- Shirley Van Der Maarel - Refugees, depopulation, creative research methods
- Soheila Shourbaji - Succession, land tenure, auction markets, economic anthropology
- Sourabh Phadke
- Thomas Long - The Anthropology of Christianity, U.S Evangelicalism, Ideology, Political Theology
- Vanessa Lefton - Inequality in Britain, creative methods, social infrastructure, care
- Vicente Yáñez Garrido
- Yaru Yang - Transnational Migration, Language and Racialisation, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Everyday Life, China-Africa
- Abercrombie, Amelia - How grammars leak: multilingualism in Prizren (Kosovo)
- Al-Hudaid, Nada - Artistic mourning: religious rituals and rites among Shia in Kuwait
- Askari, Lana - Imagining future: planning, infrastructure and the state in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Balázs, Anna - In-Between Futures: Urban transformation in an East Ukrainian frontline city
- Benadi, Hanane - The Wasatiyya movement: Egyptian debates on religious tolerance, minority rights and democratic pluralism
- Berisha, Rozafa - Futures in the making: youth, hope, and waiting in Southern Mitrovica (Kosova)
- Bonanno, Letizia - Pharmaceutical redemption: the reconfiguration of care in austerity ridden Athens
- Borisova, Elena - Being immobile at a time of mass migration: labour migrants with re-entry bans and their families in northern Tajikistan
- Boyd, Tom - When last year’s field is this year’s river: making a living during perennial flooding and rapid environmental change in Northeast India
- Bradbury, James - Hinduism, communism and the making of community in postcolonial Kolkata
- Ciocănel, Alexandra - Financing the house of your dreams: mortgage credit and the making of time, value, and class in Bucharest (Romania)
- del Nido, Juan Manuel - Taxis porteños: urban charisma and the Argentine
- Doležalová, Markéta - Czech and Slovak Roma in Leeds: escaping exceptionality, remaining Roma
- Douzina-Bakalaki, Phaedra - States of crisis and deprivation: the provision of food, clothes and healthcare in Xanthi, Northern Greece
- Fajardo Escoffie, Jose - Following la papa nativa: a visual ethnography of a food commodity network in Peru
- Fattori, Federico - 'Feeling China': experiencing hope and optimism in Beijing at the time of 'the Dream'
- Fians, Guilherme - Citizens of the World: negotiating and juggling identities and engagements amongst Esperanto speakers
- Folz, Jasmine - Free and open-source software in India: reconfiguring technology, autonomy and the state
- Foster, John - The temporary contract and bureaucracy in a UK Employment Agency: fashioning the neoliberal subject?
- Gallagher, Lee - The journey back home – processes of disjuncture and recovery in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation
- Gama, Antonia - Urban struggles for life: an ethnography of eviction and media-activism in Rio de Janeiro
- Goea, Teodora - Mining the past: cessation of resource exploitation and reconfiguring life in a Romanian mountainous commune
- Gunson, Jeremy - Between neoliberal multiculturalism and autonomy: the case of Totonacapan
- Hawkins, Skyler - Traversing the Personal and the Political: An Ethnographic Study of Progressive Women in North Carolina Politics
- Hoeck, Kristian - My identity is walking around without me
- Jeong, Jong Min - Becoming-dementia as a potential condition of co-dwelling in everyday life
- Karwat, Artur- Horror vacui. Fear of the empty. Reactions to changing lifescapes in the Beskid Mountains, Poland
- Kanafani, Samar - Made to fall apart: an ethnography of old houses and urban renewal in Beirut
- Kelly, Therese - A study of the moral lives and ethical dilemmas of anarchist activists living in Bristol
- Klein, Gudrun - Afro-Brazilian history in Brazilian compulsory schooling: an analysis of taught concepts of identity and race
- Larsson, Martin - What does the state eat?: The experience of development along the Grijalva River
- Leonard, Patrick - Land is no good? A study of Indian leasers in rural Fiji
- Marino, Davide - The imperative of life: multispecies associations and vital happenings in Talamanca, Costa Rica
- McMullen, Matthew - Rewilding Scotland's Highlands
- Mirza, Noreen - Middle-class Pakistani Diaspora
- Montagnani, Francesco - Ethical juggling and the grey zone: exchanging favours in the Ballarò market
- Moradi, Ahmad - Conservative revolutionaries: revisiting the Iranian Revolution after the 2009 Green Movement/Fitna
- Nascimento, Joana - Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in the Harris Tweed industry of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
- Ojani, Chakad - 'Oceans in the sky': fog harvesting in times of water scarcity and infrastructural absence in Peru
- Ota, Akimi - Ecological praxis and metaphorical 'Nature': visualising reciprocity between humans and nature in Amazonian Ecuador
- O'Sullivan, Sinead - Metis re-negotiating their relationship (With) in Canada
- Perczel, Julia - (In)formalising the E-waste Economy: toxicity, circular economy and waste work in Delhi
- Pozzi, Sara - On an inclusive economy: practices and narratives from rural Egypt
- Pushkar, Piyush - Moral and civic reasoning in the NHS
- Sandhu, Jaimal - The virtualisation of sacred space and the embodiment of Sikh identity: exploring digital networks connecting Sikh temples in Indian Punjab and England
- Sansone, Rosa - The social formation of the Mediterranean Sea: an ethnographic study of mobility infrastructures along the Tunisian coast
- Schüler Costa, Vlad - Science after humans: an ethnography of a "science automation lab"
- Secco, Victor - Microbiology in the waters of the Ganges: a matter of life and death
- Silva, Ana Paula Figueiredo - Explorations of the Brazil/London cultural encounter within historical and economic contexts
- Silva Rocha Lima, Pedro - The ICRC in Brazil: humanitarianism in negotiation
- Stefanelli, Alice – ‘Who is this city for?’ Explorations on public space and civic mobilisation in contemporary Beirut
- Thorne, Judy - Hope and despair in the Greek crisis: an ethnography of utopia at the margins of Europe
- Valdivieso, Diego - Bureaucracy beyond the desk. Mobilising resources and hunting for users for a state-led development programme in Chiloé, Chile
- Wake, Shotaro - Empathy and stigma: their consequences for cancer survivors
- Walker-Crawford, Noah - Scaling responsibility: Andean responses to climate disaster
- Wepfer, Elvira - Living 'Free and Real': an eco-projects take on alternative living in Greece
- Yáñez Serrano, Paloma - Sensorial experiences of the agro-city: the case of Spain's 'plastic sea'
- Zhou, Ximin - An anthropological inquiry into the relationship between body and space in public buildings: a case study of Beijing International Airport