DPhil (PhD) and MSc
Sussex Anthropology has a lively community of doctoral research students. Students 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. 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.
There are two basic modes of entry for doctoral-track students (please note: a DPhil is the term given by the University of Sussex to the award of Doctor of Philosophy by research, often referred to by other universities as a PhD). The first is the MSc/DPhil track, where students initially register for the MSc in Social Research Methods programme, the second is the DPhil track. The DPhil track is generally for doctoral students who already have training in research methods and anthropology, although exceptions are made in some instances.
DPhil degrees usually involve fieldwork of at least one year. This often begins within the first year, and you usually spend the second year in the field. Students usually return to Sussex to write up their thesis in the third year of study.
Extensive computing facilities are available, and office space is usually given to students taking research degrees. Students have full access to the University's main Library, and to the world-famous British Library of Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), which is located on the Sussex campus. There is close academic collaboration between Social Anthropology faculty and the other subject groups and interdisciplinary research centres, notably History, Migration Studies, Geography and Gender Studies. Particularly important links have been developed with IDS and the Graduate Research Centre in Legal Studies.
Further Information:
Contact:
The Anthropology Postgraduate Convenor, Dr Peter Luetchford: P.G.Luetchford@sussex.ac.uk