School Research Areas
We have core areas of research strength across each of our Departments:
Department of Anthropology
- Ethnography of Africa, Britain, Europe, Latin America, Melanesia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
- Medical anthropology, the body, disability, suicide
- Global health politics, evidence & policy
- Anthropology of biomedicine, biotechnologies & science
- Embodiment, performance & identity
- Landscape, personhood, historicity and property relations
- Childhood, youth and the life-cycle
- Education and schooling
- Psychological and psychiatric anthropology
- Political violence and collective memory
- International development: politics, policy and practice
Department of Economics and Finance
- Exchange rates and asset prices
- Volatility in financial markets
- Corruption and social institutions
- Economic development
- Behavioural economics
- Monetary policy
Department of Politics and History
- Elections, campaigning and political parties
- European and trans-national governance
- International relations
- War and intervention
- Intelligence and security
- Social and political thought
- Slavery and the slave trade
- European and American history
Department of Psychology
- Cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology
- Cognitive psychology and computational modelling
- Cross-cultural psychology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Health psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Social and developmental psychology
Department of Sociology and Communications
- Social, psychological and cultural aspects of health and illness
- Social and cultural research methods
- Social theory
- National and international media: their social role, and production and consumption processes
- Construction of scientific and medical knowledge
- Social context and analysis of language and communication
