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Department Of Anthropology
Research Centres
- Centre for Social Justice & Community Action
- Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
- Sleep Lab
Research Groups
- Anthropology in Development
- Engaged Anthropology
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group
- Medical Anthropology
- Medical Anthropology Research Group
- Public Culture in Theory and Practice Research Group
Disciplines
Research Expertise
- Agriculture and soil science
- Amazonia
- Anthropology of consciousness
- Anthropology of food
- Anthropology of the body
- Apes
- Applied anthropology
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Biological anthropology
- Breastfeeding
- Britain
- Buddhism
- Caribbean
- Chad
- Children
- Co-sleeping
- Computational methods in applied social sciences
- Computer modelling and simulation
- Conflict resolution
- Displaced persons and refugees
- Dreams
- E-Social Science
- East Asia
- Ecological and Evolutionary Medicine
- Engagement with new science and medicine
- Environmental anthropology
- Europe
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Exchange
- Genetics
- Ghana
- Governance
- Health and Illness in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Health environments
- India
- Indigenous knowledge
- Infant and Child Health
- International aid and development
- International development
- International Health and Development
- Islam
- Kinship
- Malawi
- Markets
- Medical anthropology
- Mediterranean
- Melanesia
- Middle East
- Nepal
- New reproductive technologies
- New world monkeys
- Nigeria
- Old world monkeys
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Participatory methods
- Political anthropology
- Political organisation
- Public culture
- Public Health
- Religion
- Reproductive Health
- Sociocultural anthropology
- South Africa
- South Asia
- Sports and martial arts
- Stress
- Sub Saharan Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Transportation and roads
- Virtual societies and artificial intelligence
- Visual anthropology
Research Facilities
- Information Technology: Specalist informatics lab for complex data analaysis
- Library (2,000 specialist titles)
- Analysing: soft tissues (blood, saliva) and hard tissues (bones, teeth)
- Collections: primate and human skeletal material, fossil hominid casts
- Information Technology
- Collections: Material Culture
- Video library
- Parent-Infant Sleep Lab
- Physical Anctivity Lab
- Endocrinology Lab
- Digital Shape Lab
Research Projects
- C-section infant care study
- Longitudinal study of infant feeding and sleeping
- Parent-infant bed-sharing: Who, why and how?
AID Project
- Action research to evaluate the impact on livelihoods of a set of post-harvest interventions in Ghana's off-road settlements: focus on IMTs
- Anthropology and Development: Engaging Processes and Practices at Postgraduate, Undergraduate and Pre-University Levels
- Contextual instantiation of indigenous domain knowledge: An e-science approach
- Female circumcision in Oromia, Ethiopia
- From the Horse's Mouth: Integrating Video and Teaching in Higher Education in Anthropology
- Improving children's mobility and access
- Improving market institutions and urban food supplies for the urban poor: a comparative study of Nigeria and Zambia: scoping phase
- Indigenous knowledge methodologies for natural resource research
- Integrated Management of European Wetlands
- Investigations on Building a Food Marketing Policy Evidence Base in Nigeria
- Negotiations and mining in PNG
- NGOs and the state in Ghana and India: an exploration of new NGO-state relationships and their impact on poverty eradication programmes
- Rural Access Issues and the Supply of Urban Food Markets in Nigeria: Focus on Market Access for Smallholder Vegetable Producers on the Jos Plateau
- Scoping Study on the Role of Trade and Markets in Conflict Development and Conflict Resolution with special reference to Nigeria
- Social resilience among young Liberians
- Towards an engaged anthropology: Advancing methodological approaches to indigenous knowledge research and community well-being
- What is traditional about Piaroa traditional knowledge?
EARG Project
- Bones of Ol Pejeta: Neotaphonomic and Ecological Survey (BONES)
- Children, Transport and Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Developing a Child-Centred Evidence Base to Improve Policy and Change Thinking Across Africa
- Cognitive evolution and the brain
- Evolutionary architecture of reproduction in female mammals
- Hominin Palaeoecology: Comparing Fossil Evidence
- Human mobility and the modelling of forager transitions
- The co-evolution of sleep, brain and behaviour
MARG Project
- A Life Course Approach to Obesity
- Child Sleep and Obesity
- Designing for Health: Architecture, Art and Design at the James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough
- Developmental Effects on Reproductive Function in Migrant Bangladeshi Women
- Early life influences on obesity and fat patterning in children:critical periods, environmental determinants, and socio-cultural context
- Infertility and the New Reproductive Technologies among British Pakistani Moslems
- Investigating Physical Activity and Diet in British Pakistani Women and Girls.
- NECOT: North East Cot Trial
- NHS Hospital 'Chaplaincies' in a Multifaith Society
- Night-time infant care in North-East England
- Physiology of parent-infant sleep contact
- Sleep of pre-school children: relationships to health
- Sleeping arrangements for twin infants
- Smoke Free North East Office: a model of good practice for England?
- South Bank Health and Social Needs Project
- Understanding the impact of early environment on ovarian function and cardiovascular risk factors
Medical Anthropology Projects
- Bradford Infant Care Study (BradICS)
- Dummy use and infant sleep
- Got Milk? Project
- Infant sleep location on the post-natal ward
- ISIS: Infant Sleep Information Source
- Parent-Infant Sleep Ecology & Behaviour
PCTP Project
- DNA Evidence? Genetic Anthropology and Historical Debate
- Insomnia in the community: the Better Sleep Programme
- Rhetoric, Agency, and Farmers’ Knowledge in the Management of Upland Environmental Processes in the UK
- Sociality and Rhetoric Culture in the Interpretation of Situations: an Anthropological Theory and its Application in East Germany
- The Children of Ephraim: Constructing Jewish Identity in Andhra Pradesh
- The Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad
Staff
Academic Staff
- Dr Simone Abram
- Prof Catherine Alexander
- Prof Helen L. Ball
- Prof Robert A. Barton
- Dr Sandra Bell
- Prof Gillian Bentley
- Prof Alan Bilsborough
- Dr Hannah Brown
- Dr Trudi Buck
- Dr Ben Campbell
- Dr Matei Candea
- Prof Michael B. Carrithers
- Dr Peter J. Collins
- Dr Iain Edgar
- Dr Yulia Egorova
- Dr Sarah Elton
- Dr Charles Gullick
- Dr Kate Hampshire
- Dr Russell Hill
- Dr A. Maria A. Kastrinou
- Dr Jeremy Kendal
- Dr Rachel Kendal (nee Day)
- Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
- Dr Kris (Fire) Kovarovic
- Dr Jamie F. Lawson
- Prof Robert H. Layton
- Dr Stephen M. Lyon
- Dr Claudia Merli
- Dr Alex Mesoudi
- Dr Nayanika Mookherjee
- Dr Tessa M. Pollard
- Dr Ian Rickard
- Dr Andrew J. Russell
- Dr Jo Setchell
- Prof Paul Sillitoe
- Prof Bob Simpson
- Dr Malcolm T. Smith
- Dr Una Strand Vidarsdottir
- Prof Veronica Strang
- Dr Jamie Tehrani
- Dr Thomas Yarrow
Research Staff
- Dr Susana Carro-Ripalda
- Dr Gillian Cooper
- Mr Peter Dixon
- Dr Leslie Jessop
- Ms Ellis Judson
- Dr Aneesa Kassam
- Dr Daniel M. Knight
- Dr Frances Larson
- Dr Papreen Nahar
- Dr Alejandra Nunez-de-la-Mora
- Dr Gina Porter
- Dr Alanna Rudzik
- Dr Charlotte Russell
- Professor Paul Sant Cassia
- Dr Thomas Scott-Phillips
- Mrs Janet Starkey
- Mr Steven Wilson
Administrative Staff
- Mrs Patricia Barber
- Mr John Forster
- Ms Paula Furness
- Mrs Brenda Grant
- Miss Nicola Hamilton
- Ms Alison Hunt
- Miss Rosie Legg
- Mrs Kate Payne
Technical Staff
Research Student
- Mrs Rebecca Aryal
- Miss Sally Atkinson
- Ms Claudia C. Aufschnaiter
- Beth Bedard
- Ms Dori Beeler
- Mr Emilio G. Berrocal
- Mrs Paula Berry
- Mr Damien Boutillon
- Dr Elena Burgos-Martínez
- Miss Klara Anna Capova
- Mr William Carter
- Mr Ben Coleman
- Miss Natasha Constant
- Mr James Anthony Coxon
- Ms Denise Crane
- Miss Andrea Donaldson
- Ms Rachel Douglas-Jones
- Miss Emilie Fairet
- Mrs Roya Farid
- Miss Leah Findlay
- Dr Veronique Griffith
- Miss Ingrid Grueso-dominguez
- Mr Ben Gruwier
- Dr Manizha Hadi
- Dr Gareth E. Hamilton
- Miss Carla Handley
- Ms Sarah Hayton
- Dr Yvonne Hornby-Turner
- Ms Lauren Houghton
- Miss Caroline Howlett
- Miss Rachel Hughes
- Mr Martyn Hurst
- Miss Dalia Iskander
- Ms Ishrat Jahan
- Mrs Purnima Jayasinghe-arachchig
- Ms Kelly Johnson
- Mr Marius Kempe
- Mr Ross Kendall
- Ms Vivien Kent
- Miss Charlotte King
- Ms Julian Kotzé
- Mrs Emilia Licitra
- Mr Sorbon Mavlonazarov
- Ms Erika McClure
- Mrs Victoria McGowan
- Mrs Alkmini Morou
- Mr Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal
- Miss Amy Mycock
- Mrs Zobaida Nasreen
- Ms Meg Newark
- Armando Norman
- Miss Carolyn O'Connor
- Mr Robert Panico
- Ms Sara Pena-valderrama
- Davide Piffer
- Miss Kimberly Plomp
- Miss Joanna Puckering
- Ms Lyn Robinson
- Miss Jamie-leigh Ruse
- Miss Eleanor Ryan
- Miss Pina Sadar
- Mr Maurice Said
- Ms Savita Sathe
- Ms Rei Shimoda
- Miss Kathryn Shutt
- Mr Patrick Sonstroem
- Mr. Joseph Stubbersfield
- Miss Catherine Taylor
- Ms Frances Thirlway
- Miss Katy Thompson
- Mr Peter Tomlin
- Miss Gillian Vale
- Dr. Lane Volpe
- Dr Megan Wainwright
- Miss Caroline Walters
- Miss I-chun Wang
- Ms Sian Waters
- Ms Kim Webb
- Ms Diana Wiedemann
- Mr Daniel Wigmore-shepherd
- Dr Sam Williams
- Miss Kathryn Williams
- Mr Miles Woodruff
- Mr Fassil Yelemtu
- Mrs Dorota Zukowska
Taught Postgraduate
- Miss Charlotte Albury
- Miss Elspeth Best
- Mr Gene Buchanan
- Mr James Burgess
- Mr Clifford Duff
- Miss Lucy Eldred
- Mr David Garcia-ramirez
- Miss Emily Gelipter
- Mrs Jane Herron
- Miss Shona Lee
- Ms Jennifer Nelson
- Mr. Mark Newton
- Mrs Fatma Nixon
- Mr. Collins Zamawe