Impact and Engagement

Our research in the real world.

From exhibitions to policy engagement, school visits to consultancy, we're always looking for new ways to get our research out into the world.

Spotlight

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London Anthropology Day 2026

We'll be at the annual free university taster day for anyone interested in studying anthropology as an undergraduate or post graduate. organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Migration Sounds - the world's first survey of the sounds of human migration

The result of a year-long partnership between Cities and Memory and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).

Oracles, Omens & Answers

This exhibition focused on how people have sought answers to life's big questions throughout history

6 December 2024 - 27 April 2025.

Co-curated by Professor David Zeitlyn and Dr Michelle Aroney

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society

The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) is home to two celebrated policy and public outreach programmes - The Migration Observatory and Global Exchange on Migration (GEM). They have reshaped how academia can inform policy and public debate, grounding them in trusted, objective research.

In Focus

2025 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford

A diamond access, peer-reviewed anthropology journal edited by a group of staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.

More information about JASO

Podcasts

The Migration Oxford Podcast

Exploring why and how people move.

Disobedient Buildings Podcast

Explore the everyday lived experiences of inhabitants of ageing blocks of flats in three different European welfare states: the UK, Romania and Norway.

The Oxford Anthropology Podcast

Explore a wide range of human experience and research from around the world.

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at the University of Oxford, dedicated to understanding the complex and interwoven causes of obesity in populations across the world.

Recent Publications

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Constructing the Achievement State

10 April 2026

Chihab El Khachab (2026)

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What Is Immigration Policy For?

31 March 2026

Madeleine Sumption (2026)

Immunity on Trial

03 March 2026

Miriam Driessen (2026)

Divination, Oracles & Omens

14 February 2025

Michelle Aroney & David Zeitlyn 2024

The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

12 February 2025

Alpa Shah (2024)

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Inheritance, The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World

21 June 2024

Harvey Whitehouse (2024)

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Nomi Dave appointed as the Evans-Pritchard Lecturer 2026-27

28 May 2026

Student's Social Media Mission to get Anthropology into the Conversation

15 May 2026

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Digital Exhibition Launch: Disobedient Buildings

07 May 2026

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