Postgraduate
Social Anthropology at Manchester offers an exciting range of masters and research programmes for applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds:
MA programmes
- The MA in Social Anthropology provides an intensive introduction to the academic discipline of social anthropology. It is intended to bring students with little or no background in social anthropology, or who have studied anthropology within a different intellectual tradition outside the UK, to a sufficiently advanced level that they can go on to a PhD- track research degree. In addition to the core modules providing a comprehensive introduction to social anthropology, students may select from a range of 50 optional modules offered across the Faculty of Humanities. To maximize the academic coherence of these options, these have been organized into seven named pathways: Research Methods; Cities and Migration; Latin American Studies; Culture, Ethnography and Development; Museums and Material Culture; Media and Performance; Visual and Sensory Media. But these pathways are not compulsory and all students are awarded the same generic degree title.
- Enquiries about this programme may be forwarded to Dr. Keir Martin (keir.martin@manchester.ac.uk).
- Enquiries about this programme may be forwarded to Dr. Keir Martin (keir.martin@manchester.ac.uk).
- The MA in Visual Anthropology offers a unique training in documentary film-making, with further options in photography and acoustic ethnography. These practice-based courses are given in conjunction with courses on the theory and history of visual anthropology. The programme is intended for those who have a first degree in social anthropology or a related discipline. EU citizens may apply for the two AHRC Professional Preparation Masters studentships assigned to this programme. Deadline 15 March, Read more.
- Enquiries about this programme may be forwarded to Dr. Angela Torresan (angela.torresan@manchester.ac.uk).
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The MA in Anthropological Research provides students who have a first degree in anthropology with a research methods training intended to prepare them for a PhD or other social research career. EU citizens may apply for the four year ESRC studentship that is open to those intending to do this programme and then proceed to a PhD.
- Enquiries about this programme may be forwarded to Dr Michelle Obeid at michelle.obeid@manchester.ac.uk or Professor Peter Wade (peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk).
- Enquiries about this programme may be forwarded to Dr Michelle Obeid at michelle.obeid@manchester.ac.uk or Professor Peter Wade (peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk).
- All Masters students benefit from personal supervision.
Doctoral programmes
- Staff members in Social Anthropology can offer PhD supervision in a wide range of topics and regions.
- There is also the unique PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media which may involve the making of a documentary film or other visual or aural production as part of doctoral fieldwork.
- As from 2010-2011, we shall also be collaborating with Drama to offer the PhD in Anthropology, Media and Performance (AMP). On this programme, students will be trained to combine ethnographic research methods and dramaturgical techniques inspired by applied theatre and the 'ethnofiction' associated with Jean Rouch to work collaboratively with their subjects in the production of improvised performances of their subjects' lives. Admissions to this programme are administered by the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. Read more.
- Enquiries about doctoral programmes may be forwarded to Dr Michelle Obeid at michelle.obeid@manchester.ac.uk or Professor Peter Wade (peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk).
Inter-disciplinary studies
Social Anthropology is part of the School of Social Sciences, alongside Sociology, Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
The place of Social Anthropology in the School and in the wider Faculty of Humanities provides opportunities for multi-disciplinary research and teaching within the University. This allows social anthropologists to develop existing links with colleagues in different departments.
One example is the major research centre, the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council , the principal government funding agency for social science research in Britain. Funded for an initial five years, with funding recently extended for a further five years, CRESC supports the research activities of social anthropologists along with that of many colleagues in the School of Social Sciences as well as with researchers from the Open University. Several PhD students in Social Anthropology are linked to CRESC.
We are actively linked to the School's Political Economy Institute, while anthropologists work in a number of university centres, such as the Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Our interdisicipinary linkages are not restricted to the social sciences, but also extend to other areas of the Arts and Humanities, through, for example:
- our Visual Anthropology PhD programme and the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology the University Research Institute in Cosmopolitan Cultures, in which Social Anthropology staff and PhD students play an active role
- Chimera, an interdisciplinary research area on cultural heritage, memory and identity interests, of which several Social Anthropology staff are active members
- our involvement in both postgraduate teaching and research in the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Resources
- The University Library has outstanding collections in social anthropology and related disciplines
- Social Anthropology has an excellent Film Library containing over 2000 titles
- PhD students have access to desks, lockers and computing facilities in a dedicated study area, adjacent to Social Anthropology staff offices
