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

The poster for London Anthropology Day - black text on yellow

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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Understanding Obesity

25 January 2024

Stanley Ulijaszek (2024)

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The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa (Thinking from Elsewhere)

01 December 2023

Thomas Cousins (2023)

White Eagle, Black Eagle: Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

01 June 2023

Robert Parkin (2023)

Global Art in Local Art Worlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value

31 December 2022

Edited By Oscar Salemink, Amélia Siegel Corrêa, Jens Sejrup, Vibe Nielsen (2022)

Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion

01 September 2022

Hugh Turpin (2022)

Re-Creating Anthropology. Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination

19 July 2022

David Gellner and Dolores Martinez (eds) (2022)

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Members of the Māori community perform songs of appreciation during lunch at the Weston Library.

Mākereti Papakura graduation ceremonies: the day in pictures

01 December 2025

A black and white photo of Mākereti Papakura. She is sitting down with her arms folded, wearing a garment of loose, light-coloured fabric over a dark skirt.

Oxford ceremonies mark the award of a posthumous degree to pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura almost 100 years after she began her studies

27 September 2025

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