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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
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
- DNA Evidence? Genetic Anthropology and Historical Debate
- 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
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
- Prof Robert A. Barton
- Professor Sandra Bell
- Prof Gillian Bentley
- Prof Alan Bilsborough
- Dr Hannah Brown
- Dr Trudi Buck
- Dr Ben Campbell
- Prof Michael B. Carrithers
- Dr Yulia Egorova
- Professor Sarah Elton
- Dr Paolo Fortis
- Professor Kate Hampshire
- Professor Russell Hill
- Dr Jeremy Kendal
- Dr Rachel Kendal (nee Day)
- Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
- Dr Kris (Fire) Kovarovic
- Prof Robert H. Layton
- Prof Ann MacLarnon
- Professor Jane Macnaughton
- Professor Nayanika Mookherjee
- Dr Tessa M. Pollard
- Professor Gina Porter
- Dr Ian Rickard
- Dr Andrew J. Russell
- Dr Maurice Said
- Professor Jo Setchell
- Prof Paul Sillitoe
- Professor Bob Simpson
- Dr Alice Stefanelli
- Dr Edward (Jed) Stevenson
- Dr Duncan Stibbard Hawkes
- Prof Veronica Strang
- Dr Sally Street
- Dr Amanda Tan
- Dr Jamie Tehrani
- Dr Cecilia Tomori
- Dr Tom Widger
- Dr Thomas Yarrow
Research Staff
- Dr Nasima Akhter
- Ms Raihana Ferdous
- Dr Alex Flynn
- Dr Adetayo Kasim
- Dr Sharon Kessler
- Eleni Mamoulaki
- Dr Papreen Nahar
- Dr Tehseen Noorani
- Dr Leonidas Oikonomakis
- Dr Felix Ringel
- Dr Charlotte Russell
- Dr Antti Silvast
- Dr Akansha Singh
- Dr Catherine Taylor
- Dr. Jennifer A. Thompson
- Dr Britta Turner
- Dr Katy Williams
Administrative Staff
- Ms Jane Abel
- Dr Rachel S. Dickins
- Mrs Brenda Grant
- Miss Rosie Legg
- Miss Jennifer Legg
- Dr Sarah McLusky
- Mrs Kate Payne
Technical Staff
Other
- Dr Rosita Armytage
- Dr Dori Beeler
- Dr Khurshida Begum
- Dr Jesse Bonwitt
- Rabb Barbara Borts
- Dr Klara Anna Capova
- Dr Esther Clarke
- Dr Peter J. Collins
- Dr Gillian Cooper
- Dr Gwynned de Looijer
- Dr Wendy Dirks
- Dr Andrea Donaldson
- Dr David Dupuis
- Dr Iain Edgar
- Dr Michele Fontefrancesco
- Dr Leslie Jessop
- Dr Aneesa Kassam
- Dr Kesson Magid
- Dr Margherita Margiotti
- Ms Erika McClure
- Dr Muhammad A. Z. Mughal
- Dr Jordan Mullard
- Dr David O'Kane
- Dr Joanna Puckering
- Dr Alanna Rudzik
- Dr Rachel Shah
- Dr Andrew Shuttleworth
- Dr Malcolm T. Smith
- Dr Ana Sousa-Santos
- Dr Joseph Stubbersfield
- Dr Frances Thirlway
- Mr Peter Tomlin
- Dr Stefano Vaglio
- Dr Eline van Asperen
- Dr Megan Wainwright
- Dr Sian Waters
- Dr Sam Williams
Research Student
- Ms Aethiqah Abdul-halim
- Mr Timothy Alabi
- Mr Andrew Allan
- Mr Giuseppe Amatulli
- Mr Alec Ayers
- Miss Susanna Baker
- Ms Gabrielle Barkess-kerr
- Elena Burgos Martínez
- Mr Alexander C-kent-widdows
- Miss Holly Chalcraft
- Mr Alessandro Corso
- Mr James Anthony Coxon
- Ms Anita Datta
- Mr Christopher Diming
- Ms Allison Dixley
- Mr Justin Dixon
- Mr Arthur Eirich
- Miss Leah Findlay
- Miss Katharine Flach
- Miss Eleanor Fleming
- Mr Ivan Garcia-nisa
- Ms Dimitra Georgiadou
- Miss Carmen Granito
- Dr Veronique Griffith
- Miss Ingrid Grueso-Dominguez
- Mr Ben Gruwier
- Dr Manizha Hadi
- Miss Amy Hawkin
- Miss Hao-tzu Ho
- Mr Hsiang-wei Hsiao
- Miss Yasmin Ilkhani
- Mr Admir Jugo
- Miss Alice-amber Keegan
- Dr Ross Kendall
- Ms Maria Kenti-Kranidioti
- Ms Abby King
- Mr Hamza Lakhal
- Mr Duncan Learmouth
- Miss Kelsey Lee
- Miss Jiangnan Li
- Mrs Emilia Licitra
- Mr Pedro Méndez-Carvajal
- Ms Gessica Martini
- Mr. Jamie Mckaughan
- Miss Lucy Millington
- Ms Elena Miltiadis
- Ms Heather Munro
- Ms Zarja Mursic
- Mr Danson Mwangi
- Mr Misheck Julian Nkhata
- Mr Fredrik Nyman
- Miss Nyaboke Omwega
- Ms Marie-claire Pagano
- Mr Alexander Parkyn-smith
- Mrs Tracy Peter-samat
- Miss Lauren Powell
- Mr Md Rahman
- Sarah Maya Rosen
- Dr Pina Sadar
- Ms Savita Sathe
- Miss Emily Sinclair
- Andreas Themistocleous
- Mrs Rebecca Tuck
- Mr Mohammad Uddin
- Ms Diana Vonnak
- Ms Janelle Wagnild
- Miss Lila Warawutsunthon
- Mr Robin Watson
- Mr Daniel Whitehouse
- Mr Miles Woodruff
- Mr Yi-cheng (Peter) Wu
- Ms Mei Xue