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Department Of Anthropology
Research Centres
Research Groups
Research Groups
Research Facilities
- 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
- Video library
- Information Technology: Specalist informatics lab for complex data analaysis
- Parent-Infant Sleep Lab
- Physical Anctivity Lab
- Endocrinology Lab
- Digital Shape Lab
- Collections: Material Culture
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
- 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
Medical Anthropology Projects
- Bradford Infant Care Study (BradICS)
- Dummy use and infant sleep
- Got Milk? Project
- Infant sleep location on the post-natal ward
- Insomnia in the community: the Better Sleep Programme
- ISIS: Infant Sleep Information Source
- Parent-Infant Sleep Ecology & Behaviour
PCTP Project
- 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 Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad
Social Anthropology Projects
- The relationship between sex and gender in four societies: A pilot study to assess the structure of sex/gender relationships using Q-methodology.
- Transitory Lives: An Anthropological Research of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean
Staff
Academic Staff
- Professor Simone Abram
- Prof Catherine Alexander
- Prof Helen L. Ball
- Professor Robert A. Barton
- Prof Gillian Bentley
- Prof Alan Bilsborough
- Dr Hannah Brown
- Dr Trudi Buck
- Dr Ben Campbell
- Dr Liana Chase
- Dr Michael Crawley
- Professor Yulia Egorova
- Professor Sarah Elton
- Dr Paolo Fortis
- Professor Kate Hampshire
- Dr Paolo Heywood
- Professor Russell Hill
- Dr Jeremy Kendal
- Professor Rachel Kendal (nee Day)
- Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
- Dr Kris (Fire) Kovarovic
- Prof Robert H. Layton
- Prof Ann MacLarnon
- Professor Jane Macnaughton
- Dr Roslyn Malcolm
- Professor Nayanika Mookherjee
- Professor Tessa M. Pollard
- Professor Gina Porter
- Dr Felix Ringel
- Dr Andrew J. Russell
- Professor Jo Setchell
- Prof Paul Sillitoe
- Professor Bob Simpson
- Dr Alice Stefanelli
- Dr Edward (Jed) Stevenson
- Professor Veronica Strang
- Dr Sally Street
- Dr Amanda Tan
- Professor Jamie Tehrani
- Dr Tom Widger
- Professor Thomas Yarrow
Teaching Staff
Research Staff
- Dr Nasima Akhter
- Dr Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes
- Dr Bilal Ashraf
- Mr Dalir Barkhoda
- Dr Claire Dungey
- Ms Raihana Ferdous
- Ms Sadaf Islam
- Professor Adetayo Kasim
- Miss Alice-Amber Keegan
- Dr Ehsan Kharatikoopaei
- Dr Stephanie Morris
- Dr Papreen Nahar
- Dr Tehseen Noorani
- Dr Akansha Singh
- Dr Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
- Mrs Germaine Uwimpuhwe
- Dr Janelle Wagnild
Administrative Staff
- Janet Cummings
- Dr Rachel S. Dickins
- Brenda Grant
- Mrs Laura Haswell
- Rosie Legg
- Jennifer Legg
- Kate Payne
Technical Staff
Other
- Dr Sonia Ahmed
- Dr Khurshida Begum
- Professor Sandra Bell
- Dr Upendra Bhojani
- Dr Paride Bolletin
- Dr Jesse Bonwitt
- Rabb Barbara Borts
- Prof Michael B. Carrithers
- Dr Meixuan Chen
- Dr Esther Clarke
- Dr Alessandro Corso
- Mr Christopher Diming
- Dr Iain Edgar
- Dr Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
- Dr Carmen Granito
- Dr Leslie Jessop
- Dr Aneesa Kassam
- Dr David O'Kane
- Ms Marie-claire Pagano
- Dr Joanna Puckering
- Dr Maurice Said
- Dr Catherine Taylor
- Ms Tharindi Udalagama
- Dr Megan Wainwright
- Dr Sian Waters
- Prof Li Xiang
- Dr Heather Yoeli
Research Student
- Ms Aethiqah Abdul-halim
- Ms Halima Akhter
- Mr Timothy Alabi
- Mr Andrew Allan
- Mr Giuseppe Amatulli
- Miss Sophia C Anderson
- Ms Gabrielle Barkess-kerr
- Ms Vasiliki (Vicky) Bathrelou
- Mr. Eric Boyd
- Mr Alexander C-kent-widdows
- Miss Ana-Maria Cîrstea
- Miss Milena Carstens
- Miss Holly Chalcraft
- Ms. Nuzhat Choudhury
- Mr James Anthony Coxon
- Miss Hannah Darnton
- Ms Anita Datta
- Allison Dixley
- Mr. Kiefer Duffy
- Mr Arthur Eirich
- Miss Eleanor Fleming
- Ms Michele Freed
- Mr Ivan Garcia-nisa
- Ms Dimitra Georgiadou
- Miss Ingrid Grueso-Dominguez
- Mr Ben Gruwier
- Miss Amy Hawkin
- Miss Yasmin Ilkhani
- Ms. Lucy Johnson
- Mr Admir Jugo
- Ms Maria Kenti-Kranidioti
- Ms Abby King
- Mr Hamza Lakhal
- Ms Andrea Lambell
- Mr Duncan Learmouth
- Miss Kelsey Lee
- Miss Jiangnan Li
- Ms. Rebecca Liubicich
- Mr. Will Lloyd
- Miss Catherine Marley
- Ms Gessica Martini
- Miss Laura Mcguire
- Mr. Jamie Mckaughan
- Mrs. Lenka Medvecová Tinková
- Dr. Elena Miltiadis
- Miss Amelia Mulcahey
- Ms Heather Munro
- Mr Danson Mwangi
- Mr Misheck Julian Nkhata
- Fred Nyman
- Miss Nyaboke Omwega
- Miss Emily Parker
- Mr Alexander Parkyn-smith
- Mr. Joseph Peploe
- Mrs Tracy Peter-samat
- Miss Chimwemwe Phiri
- Rose Pilling
- Miss Natasha Price
- Mr Md Rahman
- Sarah Maya Rosen
- Andrea Silva-caballero
- Miss Emily Sinclair
- Miss Ellice Smith
- Miss Ceri Taylor
- Andreas Themistocleous
- Miss Johanna Thren
- Mrs Rebecca Tuck
- Miss Francesca Tugwell
- Ms Eirini Tzouma
- Mr Mohammad Uddin
- Ms Diána Vonnák
- Mr. Ben Walton
- Miss Lila Warawutsunthon
- Mr Robin Watson
- Mr Daniel Whitehouse
- Mr Yi-cheng (Peter) Wu
- Ms Mei Xue