Postgraduate Information

The Durham Anthropology Department is the largest in the UK and one of the largest in the world. It is one of the very few in the UK which pursues both biological and socio-cultural anthropology and is notable for its efforts to integrate the two disciplines. The department was rated as demonstrating 'International Excellence' in the last Research Assessment Exercise, and the expertise of our staff covers a wide range of topics and regions. We have a growing and active postgraduate community, including international students from around the world. We offer 5 different taught postgraduate degrees (MA Research Methods (Anthropology), MA Sociocultural Anthropology, MSc Development Anthropology, MSc Evolutionary Anthropology, MSc Medical Anthropology), while the thesis topics of recent research students reflect anthropology in all its forms. Our postgraduate students are very active in all manner of academic activities, such as:

• organising our Annual Departmental Conference at which research students report on their research
• contributing to, presenting at, and organising Departmental research group seminars
• editing and writing for the Durham Anthropology Online Journal
• attending and presenting at National and International conferences
• publishing their work in academic journals
• winning research grant funding
• belonging to anthropological academic societies
• serving on academic committees

We have been successful in helping our students win funding to support their studies from a wide range of funding providers such as research council competitions, e.g. ESRC, MRC/ESRC, ESRC/NERC and ESRC CASE studentships; KTP partnerships; Durham Doctoral Fellowships; Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowships; and via various staff research grants. We also offer teaching bursaries worth £3000 per academic year.

Please contact the Anthropology Director of Postgraduate Studies for any information you require about applying to our Department: anth.postgrad-studies@durham.ac.uk