The school offers a wide range of
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The undergraduate
degrees include BA and BSc
degrees in anthropology, and BSc degrees in both biological
anthropology and conservation. Some of these are four-year programmes
which include a year abroad.
In addition to the campus facilities available to all students, we have
our own dedicated undergraduate computing laboratory. This is equipped
with late-model Apple Macs and is used both for teaching and for
general student use.
Taught
postgraduate programmes cover
topics in social anthropology, the environment, ethnobotany and
conservation. Facilities for taught postgraduates include a dedicated
computing room equipped with both PCs and Apple Macs.
Research
The school is strongly research-active
and
was excellently rated in both the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment
Exercise. We maintain two weekly research
seminars,
in anthropology and conservation, and host or co-host three annual public lectures.
There are four specialist research
units
within the school, in computing, conservation, ethnobiology and
osteology, each of which serves to attract funding and focus research
projects within its own area.
Supervision for research
students can be offered in
social, biological, medical and environmental anthropology,
ethnobiology and conservation. Facilities for research students include
dedicated computer rooms and laboratories.
The school hosts a Listserv, the Lowland
South Americanist European Network (LOSAN),
which acts as an interdisciplinary network for European colleagues
working in lowland South America and neighbouring regions.
The Powell-Cotton
Museum, at Birchington in East Kent, houses a wealth of material
collected by Major Percy Powell-Cotton between 1887 and 1939. Not only
does it have one of the largest ethnographic collections in the British
Isles, but it is also home to an astonishing collection of zoological
material, particularly of African primates. These material collections
are supplemented by detailed diaries, archival film, sound recordings
and photographs, which make them particularly valuable for researchers.
Staff, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students, make use of
the museum's collections, which are particularly strong in Sub-Saharan
African material.
