University of Oxford

Research

• Institute of
  Social and Cultural
  Anthropology

  

  Research is carried out by individuals but it is possible to identify four research clusters, in which staff discuss and compare similar projects. These are: ethnographic practices; visual and material anthropology; medical and ecological anthropology; and transnationalism and the anthropology of policy. The clusters reflect the environment and resources which have been developed at Oxford.

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• Institute of
  Cognitive & Evolutionary
  Anthropology

  

  Research at ICEA focuses on understanding social evolution in broad taxonomic range. In part, that involves trying to understand what it means to be human, and how we as a species came to be that way. But the breadth of our interests also extends beyond humans to include primates and other social mammals and birds and the broader origins of sociality

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• Centre for
  Anthropology
  and Mind

  

  Research at CAM is directed to explaining cultural regularity and variation. At least some human universals appear to be shaped and constrained by implicit (unconscious) cognitive mechanisms. Explaining how cultural differences came into being entails close tracking of the way cultural phenomena are created and transformed through processes of transmission.

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• Postdoctoral Research

  

  Information for postdoctoral students seeking to base research projects in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.

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