The Department of Anthropology has a lively and enthusiastic community of postgraduate students. We have around 30 Masters students and around 50 PhD (DPhil) students.
Anthropology at Sussex is the largest UK department that focuses solely on social anthropology, and ranked in the top 5 social anthropology departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 90 per cent of our research was rated as recognised internationally or higher, with over half rated as internationally excellent or higher, and one-quarter rated as world leading.
Sussex is ranked among the top 10 universities in the UK for anthropology in The Times Good University Guide 2013 and The Complete University Guide 2012-13, and among the top 15 universities in the UK in The Guardian University Guide 2013.
Anthropology at Sussex is distinctive in the way it links ethnography with the study of vital contemporary issues. We explore aspects of 'modernity', citizenship, human rights, religion, conflict and violence, as well as the consequences of globalisation, transnationalism and migration. Many of us look at the impacts of social and economic change – including planned development – on local practices, meanings and identities. Our main regional interests are in South, East and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Europe (including the UK).
Taught degrees
Our MA degrees are designed both for students seeking to convert to social anthropology, and for those with a good degree in social anthropology who wish to extend their specialism. As modules are evaluated only by research papers rather than examination, you engage your own interests with module material throughout the year. We attract an international and motivated cohort of Masters students each year.
For more information, email the Course Convenor, Dr Rebecca Prentice, at r.j.prentice@sussex.ac.uk or contact us at:
Postgraduate Co-ordinator,
School of Global Studies, Arts C,
University of Sussex, Falmer,
Brighton BN1 9SJ, UK
E globalstudiespg@sussex.ac.uk
Research degrees
Sussex Anthropology has a lively community of doctoral research students. You join an active research community, involving visiting doctoral students from overseas, postdoctoral fellows as well as our own faculty. Each student is allocated two supervisors and we recruit students wishing to undertake research in the main areas of faculty interests. Refer to Research themes. These are generally concerned with issues of power and inequality, and cover – among other issues – anthropologies of gender, development, science, modernity, globalisation and identity, health and medicine, migration and transnationalism, religion and representation, heritage, performance, political movements, conflict and violence, and human rights and environment.
For more information, email the Anthropology Postgraduate Convenor, Dr Peter Luetchford, at p.g.luetchford@sussex.ac.uk