Pioneering research at the cutting-edge of global issues
Be inspired by research-led teaching on contemporary and urgent questions.
100% of Brunel’s Anthropology outputs are recognised as internationally excellent and world-leading (REF 2021)
Our lecturers are experts in a wide range of topics including:
- AIDS epidemic
- Anthropology of emotion
- Cosmology and witchcraft
- Development, inequality and education
- Development and race
- Disability and human rights
- Education, children’s rights and social protection
- Energy and resource conflict
- Economic life in cross-cultural perspective
- Infrastructure development
- International development
- Markets and trade
- Masculinity and sexuality
- Migration, ‘(il)legality’, citizenship
- Mobility and connectivity across regions
- Nationalism, religion and social conflict
- Personhood, history and landscape
- Performance and the body
- Post-colonial anthropology
- Psychological and psychiatric anthropology
- Roads and transport infrastructure
- Sectarian and identity politics
- Trade, mobility, social life of work
- Young people
You will also have the opportunity to attend the weekly Anthropological Research Seminar where you will learn and debate about new and exciting research from guest speakers.