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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Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

01 July 2022

Elisabeth Hsu (2022)

following norberg schulz by anna ulrikke andersen

Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History through the Essay Film

27 January 2022

Anna Ulrikke Andersen (2022)

The Ritual Animal: Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

25 November 2021

Harvey Whitehouse (2021)

The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making

18 August 2021

David Parkin (2021)

rules and ethics edited by morgan clarke and emily corran

Rules and ethics: Perspectives from anthropology and history

10 August 2021

Morgan Clarke and Emily Corran (eds) (2021)

how kinship systems change by robert parkin

How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

01 July 2021

Robert Parkin (2021)

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