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Social Anthropology PhD

The University of Edinburgh

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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    Main Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    14-SEP-26

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Our Social Anthropology group forms an international centre of excellence for postgraduate training, recognised as one of the premier and largest research departments in the UK. We have developed a distinctive body of research and teaching which systematically links everyday life to key challenges that we face in the contemporary world. This manifests itself in exciting new work on topics including: political violence, law, and peace migration and displacement arts, media and cultural heritage global, public, mental health, diagnostics, and wellbeing infrastructures, innovations, and social justice environment, resources, and sustainability kinship gender, generations, and inheritance sexual and reproductive politics religion and public life creative, multimodal, more-than-human, and collaborative ethnographies Our research is global in scope. We have established a reputation for work in Europe, and are a major centre for the anthropological study of South Asia. Our specialist interests span other parts of the world, including: Africa East and Southeast Asia the Middle East Latin America North America Applied research includes policy-related work on: asylum-seekers NGOs healthcare sustainable development cultural heritage participatory rights Our work combines emphasis on ethnographic fieldwork with a focus on contemporary issues. We welcome interdisciplinary research. We are home to the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA), and have numerous collaborations with colleagues in Law Geography History Classics, and Archaeology and the Edinburgh College of Art, including the Atelier Network. We also work closely with the Centre for African Studies (CAS), particularly with research on international development, and the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS).

Tuition fees

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£ 27,600per year

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University information

The University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh

  • University League Table

    18th

  • Campus address

    Main Campus, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Anthropology

    8th out of 23 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 201
    191 95%

    3rd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    76.0 76%

    8th

    1

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.86 72%

    21st

    1

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