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Postgraduate Scholarships for Anthropology at the University of Kent

The Anthropology Department within the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent has a variety of Scholarships available. The scholarships are listed here above areas of specialisation within the department which might interest you. Please note in particular the new ESRC Doctoral Training Centres awards to be granted to Anthropology at Kent within the Southeast Consortium (see http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/research_council/esrc.html or www.surrey.ac.uk/southeast<http://www.surrey.ac.uk/southeast> for details on the consortium). The deadline for completion of the process of application for these is strictly set at 11 March, and UK applicants for any of the other awards listed below who apply by that date will be considered for the ESRC DTC award as well).

ESRC DTC Award(s)
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/anthropology.html

University Research Studentship
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/departmental/anthropology.html
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/prospective_students/funding.html#university (deadline 15 April)

5 to 10 GTA Research Studentships
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/prospective_students/funding.html (deadline 15 April)

International Scholarships
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/international/ (deadlines various)


A significant focus of Social Anthropological work in the department is on the related themes of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, conflict, and multiculturalism as these are manifest in the Middle East, the Balkans, Amazonia, Central America, Oceania, South and South East Asia and, of course, the United Kingdom. Our research extends to intercommunal violence, indigenous urbanisation, mental health, diasporas, intercommunal trade, pilgrimages, diasporas, urban ethnogenesis and the study of contemporary religions and their global connections.

A strong and growing focus of Kent research is in the domains of visual anthropology, not only video and photography but also the wider use of the image in fields as diverse as the internet, psychology and historicity (our training programme in Visual Anthropology is a major part of the ESRC consortium).

Work on identity and locality links with growing strengths in customary law, kinship and parenthood. The reconstituted topic of 'kinship' is presently a growth area for the School, with work on adoption, fosterage, partible parentage, arranged and non-arranged marriages, polygamy and female-centred property transmission, as well as in evolutionary approaches to early motherhood. This is complemented by work on the language of relatedness, child health and on the cognitive bases of kinship terminologies. Furthermore, the study of language and of forms of representation constitutes a major area of focus, exemplified by our work on discourse analysis and speech ethnography, ethnopsychiatric diagnosis, social etiquette and self-presentation, dreams and personhood, and the interconnections between language history, diaspora identity, visual media and ethnogenesis. It also features in our critical assessments of social description and representations of culture.

A final strand of our Social Anthropological research focuses on policy and advocacy issues and examines the connections between morality and law, legitimacy and corruption, public health policy and local healing strategies, legal pluralism and property rights and the regulation of marine resources.

We conduct Digital Anthropology (information technology) projects in kinship theory and analysis supported by new computational methods within field-based studies and as applied to detailed historical records; qualitative analysis of textual and ethnographic materials; computer assisted approaches to visual ethnography; modelling, simulation and research based on artificial societies; and methods of user friendly dissemination, particularly of field data.

Social Anthropologists in the School:

Judith Boevensiepen
Glenn Bowman
Melissa Demian
Michael Fischer
Matt Hodges
Daniela Peluso
Mike Poltorak
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos


Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology research is focused in the Centre for Biocultural Diversity. We conduct research on ethnobiological knowledge systems and other systems of environmental knowledge. We research local responses to deforestation, climate change, natural resource management, medical ethnobotany, the impacts of mobility and displacement, and the interface between conservation and development and have strong connections with scholars and collections at Kew and at the Eden Project. Current projects include knowledge and germplasm exchange in British homegardens, trade in materia medica in Ladakh and Bolivia, food systems and taste perception, ethno-ornithology, the development of buffer zones for protected areas, and phyto-pharmacy amongst migrant diasporas.

Ethnobotanical and Environmental Anthropologists in the School:
Roy Ellen
Raj Puri
Anna Waldstein


Biological Anthropological research in the School engages a diverse range of research topics within biological and evolutionary anthropology. These include bioarchaeology, human reproductive strategies, hominin evolution, primate behaviour and ecology, modern human variation, cultural evolution, and Palaeolithic archaeology. We have dedicated research laboratories and up-to-date computing facilities to allow research in many areas of biological anthropology. Research links have been forged with colleagues at Kent in archaeology and biosciences, as well as with those at the Powell-Cotton Museum, the Budongo Forest Project (Uganda), and University College London.

Biological Anthropologists in the School
Sarah Johns
Stephen Lycett
Patrick Mahoney
Nick Newton-Fischer
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel
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Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer
Head of Department, Anthropology
School of Anthropology and Conservation
Marlowe Building 16
University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury CT2 7NR
United Kingdom
tel. (44) 1227 823180
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