Current Research Students
This list gives a selection of topics of current PhD and MPhil research degrees and supervised by academic staff in Social Anthropology.
Students indicated by an asterisk * are enrolled on the PhD with Visual Media programme or the MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary programme delivered in conjunction with the Granada Centre. Further details about some of these projects may be found at that programme's projects webpage.
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Allegretti, Antonio | Conceptualizing Wealth and Poverty Among Pastoralists Maasai of Northern Tanzania: Socio-Political and Economic Implications of a Mixed Economy |
| Araújo, Natalie | Sin dejar: the cosmopolitan negotiations of Colombian migrants in London |
| Atkins, Michael * | Looking for business: social and visual ambiguity of men that sell sex on the street |
| Bluett, Michael * (MPhil in ED) | British Army personnel in Iraq |
| Brkovic, Carna | Health Care, the State, and Philanthropy on the Transforming Bosnian-Serbian Border |
| Brisley, Adam | Cancer and The Patient Choice Agenda: An Ethnographic Study of the Policy and Practice of Cancer Service Delivery in Greater Manchester |
| Bullen, Claire | Everyday cosmopolitanism in Liverpool and Lyon? Developing a comparative framework of inter-ethnic relations at the city-level |
| Cabezas, Angelica * (MPhil in ED) | 'I promise to return': Peruvian female migrants in Chile |
| Celebicic-Arielli, Vanja | Hope and Entrapment on the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia |
| Chalk, Hannah | How are natural objects attributed value? The uses, meanings and treatment of university earth science collections |
| Clarke, Hester | The relationship between Muslim communities in the UK and the Home |
| Colucci, Erminia | Spirituality and spiritual healing in mental health: a research project using film and photo-documentary |
| Corral Paredes, Carolina * | Indefinite Sentence. The enduring presence of imprisonment in the lives of former inmates in Mexico. |
| Dal Pos, Monica | Street food catering: a comparative study of Akwa and Bonanjo (Douala, Cameroun) |
| Del Pozo, Miguel | Who owns the fish? Puerto Rico's management policies in a contested environmental resource |
| Dietrich, Martha Cecilia * | Sensing prison: the bodily and imaginative aspects of imprisonment among female prisoners in Peru |
| Dixon, Laura | Chasing the Rainbow: cosmopolitanism, migration and space in a gay tourist town |
| Dokic, Goran | Between warfare and welfare: veterans organisations and social security in rural Serbia |
| Dolezalova, Marketa | Identity and cultural perception of health and the body of Roma immigrants from former Czechoslovakia in N. England |
| Druker, Sofia | Knowledge and identity in Aymara constructions of sense regarding education, learning and school in Northern Chile |
| Ferrarini, Lorenzo * | The social aesthetics of the Mande hunters brotherhood |
| Figueiredo, Ana Paula Silva * | Explorations of the Brazil/London cultural encounter within historical and economic contexts |
| Folz, Jasmine | Out-sourcing of high-tech work from a South Asian perspective |
| Garnica, Frances Paola * | Visual perception and urban life: the importance of clothing in Mexico City |
| Gaspar, Andrea * | Conceptions of the visual in the contemporary design world: an ethnography in a design studio in Milan (Italy) |
| Geall, Sam | Environmental politics and pollution in rural China |
| Gonzalez, Maria Eugenia * (MPhil in ED) | From the Anaconda to the tourist market: making and living with geometric designs in an Amazonian society |
| Gonzalez, Sofia * | Black, Afro-Colombian, Maroon and Islander communities in the National Museum of Colombia: an approach from visual and reflexive anthropology |
| Gore, Rachael * | Rhythmic horizons: mapping sound from and in the London Borough of Newham |
| Hodges, Andrew | Physical scientists' networks and physics knowledge configurations after the break-up of Yugoslavia |
| Jaramillo Vazquez, Alejandra | Open museums - closed museums. Situations of social exclusion for visiting museums |
| Jeong, Jong Min | Healing the brain through sensory stimulation and activities |
| Jordan, Laura | Going union: processes of organising, work and power in a Canadian unionisation campaign |
| Jovanovic, Deana | Human capital, gender and privatization in Serbia |
| Kremer, Flavia * | Representing contemporary Bororo culture: video-exploration of a Bororo cultural revitalization project |
| Kyriakides, Theodorus | Mapping the Cypriot biopolitical sphere |
| Lang Reinisch, Luciana | "Traditional peoples" as a political category in Brazil |
| Lewis, Camilla | Class, community and 'social cohesion': the effects of urban regeneration in East Manchester |
| Lorenz, Jan * | 'Relentless dybbuk': the loss, the memory and the revival of Jewish life in post-socialist Poland |
| Maggio, Rodolfo | Pentecostalism, economy, morality and sociality in the Solomon Islands |
| McComsey, Tiffany | The stolen generations: models of being, models of doing and the dialogues between them: 'post colonial' experiences of Aboriginal well-being in Redfern |
| Mirza, Noreen | The middle class Pakistani diaspora |
| Moise, Valentina | Identity, ethnicity and perception of sameness and otherness in the town of Gorizia, Nova Gorica |
| Montoya, Ainhoa | Echoes of the past: violence and political division in post-war El Salvador |
| Morelli, Camilla | Movement, Materiality and Imagination: world-making and knowing amongst Matses children of Amazonian Peru |
| Munoz Moran, Placido * | Street art, cultural identity and public space in Barcelona |
| O'Sullivan, Sinead | The relationship between Métis people and the Canadian state |
| Poulton, George | 'Our club, our rules': FC United of Manchester fans and the transformation of English football |
| Ponte, Maria Ines * | Placing objects: gathering voices of Southwestern Angolan dolls |
| Peachey, Jenny | Witnessing beauty: aesthetics and law in Goroka, Papua New Guinea |
| Radu, Cosmin | New border regimes at the edge of empire: changing state and mobility practices in the making of the EU external border between Romania and Serbia |
| Rajkovic, Ivan | The privatisation of (post-)Yugoslav pride: hope-remaking, time reconstruction and intergenerational dynamics in the transformation of a Serbian car factory |
| Ramirez Sanchez, Martha Areli | The councils of good government: the transition from natural community to political community |
| Riedner, Lisa | The right to have rights? Negotiations of (un)documented migrant workers' 'rights' in Berlin and Munich |
| Remtilla, Aliaa * | Relying on Relationships: Adapting to Change in Tajik Ishkoshim |
| Salazar, Maria Lourdes (Lulu) | From seasonal farm workers program to permanent ethnic inequalities: a comparative analysis between Mexico and Peru |
| Scalco, Patricia | Reconciling boundaries: deconstructing virginity in contemporary urban Turkey |
| Schaumberg, Heike | Neoliberalism and its frontiers: spontaneity, work and self-organisation. Remaking class based defiance in Argentina |
| Scott, Victoria * | Disruptive change: place, memory and cultural identity amongst refugees and asylum seekers in Northern England |
| Skipalis, Brandi | Genealogy, local identity and heritage tourism in Eyam |
| Smith, Rachel E. | Domestic Moral Economy:An Ethnographic Study of Value in the Asia-Pacific Region |
| St Clair, Adam | Deliver my husband's tiffin! A rhythm analysis of food assemblages and affective intensities in urban Mumbai |
| Sturtevant, Chuck * (MPhil in ED) | Afro-Bolivian Identity and cultural mestizaje in the Yungas of La Paz |
| Spissu, Giovanni * | The People of Long Street, Cape Town |
| Symons, Jessica | Contexts and complexes: exploring influences on decision making through artistic engagement to reveal the dynamics of capitalism and sustainability |
| Trinidad, Ana Raissa | Learning and indigenous people's education in the Southern Philippines |
| Upton, Mike * | Patent fever: intellectual property and access to HIV treatment |
| Valencia, Lorena | Assisted mothers: embodied experiences of class, gender and race |
| Wadle, Hannah | Sharing contested space. Locals, Germans, and sailors in Szynort, a village in the Masurian Lake District, Poland |
| Wake, Shotaro * | Empathy and stigma: their consequences for cancer survivors |
| Webster, Rachel * | The changing perceptions of childhood, space and Islam amongst the nomadic Bakarwals of Indian Kashmir |
| Wilde, Rachel | Neoliberalism and personhood at a Gap Year charity |
| Zevallos, Raul * | Artisans, pilgrims and healers in the north of Peru |
Recently-Passed Theses
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| McArthur, Gavin | Culture, ethnicity and politics of belonging: the case of Zanzibar |
| Bonifacio, Valentina * | The passion for civilisation: encounters between Paraguayan and Maskoy people in Puerto Casado, Paraguayan Chaco |
| Bornholdt, Luciano | Social reproduction and large scale projects |
| Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine * | On the beat: composing with cultural policies and music in Cuba |
| Brown, Hannah | Constructions of Womanhood among Luo women in Western Kenya involved in voluntary health care programme |
| Bryer, Alice | Workers' self-management in Argentina |
| Carty, Anne-Marie* (MPhil in ED) | Tir Cyffredin - Shared Land: the creation of identity, cultural tradition and community in the Dyfi valley, West Wales |
| Cheung, Chi Pui | Legality and legitimacy: land, development and rural cadres in a Chinese urbanised village |
| Cicalo, Andre * | Urban Encounters: racial university quotas, racial inequality and black identity in Brazil |
| Coxshall, Wendy | Rebuilding disrupted relationships: Widowhood, narrative and silence in contemporary Ayacucho, Peru |
| Crossley, Paul | The Culture of informality: anthropological perspectives on the informal sector in Mexico |
| Cubero, Carlo * | Mobility and insularity in the Caribbean: island identities of Culebra |
| Fletcher, Rebecca | Teenage girls and the contraceptive pill |
| Flynn, Alex | Artistic impression: empowerment and the MST |
| Georgousis, Konstantinos* (MPhil in ED) | Skitzaftiko: shepherding in a small rural community in Western Greece. |
| Gordon, Doreen | Blackness and social mobility in Bahia, Brazil |
| Grisaffi, Tom | Community media and cultural activism in the Chapare, Bolivia |
| Grossman, Alyssa * | Chorographies of memory: everyday sites and practices of remembrance work in post-socialist, EU accession-era Bucharest |
| Hawkins, Paul | Rhetorics of self: Between dividual and individual in spiritual subjectivity |
| Jaramillo Salazar, Pablo | Politics of performance and ideology of multiculturalism in the Colombian indigenous movement |
| Kent, Michael | Indigenous people and protected areas: the use of state and customary normative systems in the regulation of territorial conflicts (Titicaca, Peru) |
| Luna, Laura | Learning in diversity: ethnography of a multicultural British school |
| Martin, Keir | After the volcano; the language of custom and conflict in post-urban Papua New Guinea |
| Moore, Penelope * | Living a Musical Life: Musicians, Music-Making and the Creation of Space in Vienna |
| Morgan, Jennifer | Change and everyday practice at the museum: an ethnographic study |
| Navarro-Smith, Alejandra * | Structural racism and the indigenous struggle for land, justice and autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico |
| Oien, Cecile * | Invisible/visible: ethnic and gender identity among Angolan women living in Lisbon |
| Pickering, Lucy | Consuming place and embodying substance: making an alternative America in Hawaii |
| Pinheiro, Joceny * | Authors of authenticity: indigenous leadership and the politics of identity in the Brazilian Northeast |
| Rahman, Tanzima | True blues, blacks and in-betweens: changing categories of ethnicity in the wake of Maine Road and the approaching gentrification of Moss Side |
| Rickett, Michelle | Remembered place, cultural icon: locating memories of Cape Town's District Six |
| Rollason, William | Doubting persons: participatory & collaborative research in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Sánchez-Vásquez, María | Social understanding and usage of scientific knowledge in Mexico |
| Sherrington, Richard | Developing disparities: consumption and social differentiation in post-adjustment Dar es Salaam |
| Simic, Marina | "Exit to Europe": state, travel, popular music and 'normal life' in a Serbian town |
| Staves, Sarah | Ethnic identity, nationhood and destination image in Nepal |
| Strauss, Paul | Netculture and the politics of ethnic identity in an East London borough |
| Walmsley, Emily | Blackness and belonging: race, representation and embodiment in an Ecuadorian coastal city |
| Wormald, Tom | Visions of the future: the promise of new technology for the new civil society in Hungary |
| Wu, Guofu | New wine in old bottles: the role of local government in resettlement and development in south China |
| Yamakawa, Sayumi | Youth in Transition: The Status of Youth, Marriage and Intergenerational Practices in Northern Namibia |