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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huorani transformations in twenty first century ecuador

Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador: Treks into the Future of Time

26 May 2016

Laura Rival (2016)

The African Photographic Archive

28 November 2015

Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury (eds) (2015)

The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran

01 November 2015

Zuzanna Olszewska (2015)

Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa

01 January 2015

Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten (eds) (2015)

Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

01 January 2015

Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz (eds) (2015)

This is Our Life

30 November 2014

Cara Krmpotich and Laura Peers (eds) (2013)

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