Guide to Participating Universities at London Anthropology Day 2018

This guide provides an overview of undergraduate anthropology degrees, entry requirements and specialisms of the universities participating in London Anthropology Day 2018.

● We suggest you speak to representatives at the university stalls of London Anthropology Day and visit universities’ individual websites to check specific requirements and details. ● Please note that these tables have been compiled from information submitted by individuals from the universities. ● Please keep in mind that the information is subject to change. ● An online version of this guide can be found at:

https://londonanthropologyday.co.uk/universities/

Contents:

● Pages 2 - 3 Table A: Overview ● Pages 3 - 4 Table B: Entry Requirements and Preferred Subjects ● Pages 5 - 7 Table C: Single Honours and Joint Degrees ● Pages 8 -12 Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features ● Pages 13 -14 Table E: Contact Information

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 1 of 14 Table A: Overview

University Social Biological Material Anthropology Anthropology Culture/Archaeology

University of Aberdeen ✓ ✓

University of Birmingham ✓ ✓

Bournemouth University ✓ ✓ ✓

University of Bristol ✓ ✓ ✓

Brunel University London ✓

University of Cambridge ✓ ✓ ✓

University of Dundee ✓

Durham University ✓ ✓ ✓

UEA University of East ✓ ✓ Anglia

University of Exeter ✓ ✓

Goldsmiths, University of ✓ ✓ London

University of Kent ✓ ✓

University of Liverpool ✓ ✓

LJMU Liverpool John Moores ✓ ✓ University

LSE The London School of ✓ Economics and Political Science

University of Manchester ✓ ✓

University of Oxford ✓ ✓

Oxford Brookes University ✓ ✓ ✓

Plymouth University ✓

Queen’s University Belfast ✓ ✓

University of Roehampton ✓ ✓

SOAS School of Oriental and ✓ African Studies

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University Social Biological Material Anthropology Anthropology Culture/Archaeology

University of Southampton ✓ ✓ ✓

University of Sussex ✓

UCL University College ✓ ✓ ✓ London

UCLAN University of Central ✓ ✓ ✓ Lancashire

University of Wales Trinity ✓ ✓ St. David

University of Winchester ✓ ✓ ✓

Table B: Entry Requirements and Preferred Subjects University Entry Preferred Subjects Requirements University of Aberdeen BBB/IB 32/15 HL University of Birmingham ABB to BBB/IB 32/ No preferences HL 16 - 15 Bournemouth University BA Archaeology and All subject combinations considered. Anthropology/BSc We value enthusiasm and Anthropology commitment to the study of 260-320 tariff points anthropology. BA Sociology and Anthropology 280 tariff points University of Bristol ABB (BBB No preferences contextual) IB 32/HL 16 Brunel University London BBB/IB 30 All subjects considered. BTEC and Access courses given preference where they are social science or arts and humanities related. University of Cambridge A*AA/IB 40–42/20 No preferences or 21 at HL) University of Dundee BCC/IB 30 Biology

Durham University AAB/IB 36 No preferences

UEA University of East Anglia ABB/IB 37 No preferences University of Exeter ABB/IB 32. No preferences Goldsmiths, University of BBB/BTEC: DDM/IB 3 HL subjects: One at level 6 and two at level 5 London 33 incl HL University of Kent ABB/IB 34/16 HL Biological Anthropology requires Biology, Psychology, Chemistry or Maths A Level University of Liverpool ABB/IB 33 No preferences

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 3 of 14 Table B: Entry Requirements and Preferred Subjects University Entry Preferred Subjects Requirements LJMU Liverpool John Moores 2 A-levels/IB 26 No preferences University

LSE The London School of AAB/IB 37/18 HL No preferences Economics and Political Science University of Manchester ABB/IB 34 No preferred subjects; many of our students come with a mixture of humanities and natural or social science subjects. Commitment to studying Anthropology is more important than any specific A-level combination. University of Oxford BA Human Sciences: BA Human Sciences: AAA/IB 38/18 HL Biology or Mathematics to A-level, Advanced Higher or Higher Level in the IB or any other equivalent can be BA Archaeology & helpful to students in completing this course, although Anthropology they are not required for admission. AAA/IB 38 BA Archaeology & Anthropology: A background of studying both arts and science subjects can be helpful to students in completing this course, although there are no specific subject requirements for admission.

Oxford Brookes University BBC/IB 30 No preferences Plymouth University BBB/IB 28 No preferences Queen’s University Belfast BBB/IB 32/17 HL No preferences University of Roehampton 2017 entry: BBC or Sociology, Geography, Biology, Zoology, Anthropology 280 points 2017 entry: 112 points* *New style UCAS tariff

SOAS School of Oriental and AAB/ABB/IB 35/17 No preferences African Studies HL University of Southampton ABB to BBB/IB 32 to No preferences 30/16 to 15 HL

University of Sussex AAB-ABB/IB 34 Prefer at least one essay-based subject UCL University College London AAA-AAB/IB 36-38 No specific preferences. One science subject is desirable but not required. UCLAN University of Central 112-104 UCAS for Bsc Hons Forensic Science and Anthropology - Lancashire points Biology, Chemistry or Applied Science University of Wales Trinity St. 240 UCAS points No preferences David University of Winchester 104-120 UCAS No preferences points/IB 26

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 4 of 14 Table C: Single Honours and Joint Degrees University Single Honours Joint Degrees University of Aberdeen MA (Hons) All MA (Hons): Anthropology Anthropology and Archaeology, Anthropology and (4-years full time) English, Anthropology and Film & Visual Culture, Anthropology and French, Anthropology and Gaelic Studies, Anthropology and Geography, Anthropology and German, Anthropology and History, Anthropology and International Relations, Anthropology and Philosophy, Anthropology and Politics, Anthropology and Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology, Anthropology and Spanish & Latin American Studies, Anthropology and Theology & Religious Studies University of Birmingham BA Archaeology BA Anthropology and African Studies and Anthropology BA Anthropology and Classical Literature and Civilisation BA Anthropology and History BA Anthropology and Political Science Bournemouth University BSc Anthropology BA Archaeology and Anthropology BA Sociology and Anthropology University of Bristol BA Anthropology MArts Anthropology with Innovation BA Archaeology and Anthropology Brunel University London BSc Anthropology BSc Anthropology and Sociology BSc Anthropology with Professional Development University of Cambridge BA Human, Social Social Anthropology with A) Politics and International and Political Relations B) Sociology Sciences BA Archaeology (Biological Anthropology is offered BA Archaeology through the Archaeology course, either as a (Biological stand-alone track or as a combination with Anthropology is Archaeology) offered through the Archaeology course, either as a stand-alone track or as a combination with Archaeology) University of Dundee BA Anthropology BSc Anthropology BSc Health & Human Sciences Durham University BA Anthropology BA Anthropology with Archaeology BSc Anthropology BA Anthropology with Sociology BSc Health & Human Sciences

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 5 of 14 Table C: Single Honours and Joint Degrees University Single Honours Joint Degrees UEA University of East Anglia BA Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History BA International Development with Social Anthropology and Politics BA Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History (Year in Australasia or North America) BA International Development with Social Anthropology and Politics with Overseas Experience University of Exeter BA Anthropology BA Archaeology and Anthropology BA Sociology and Anthropology Further flexibility is offered by enrolling anthropology as a part of Flexible Combined Honours. Goldsmiths, University of BA Anthropology BA Anthropology and Media London BA Anthropology and Sociology BA Anthropology and History BA Anthropology and Visual Practice University of Kent BSc Anthropology BA Social Anthropology and Politics BSc Biological BA Social Anthropology and Social Policy Anthropology BA History and Social Anthropology BSc BA Social BA Sociology and Social Anthropology Anthropology BA Psychology and Social Anthropology BSc Human Ecology BA Law and Social Anthropology BA Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology BA Social Anthropology with Italian BA Social Anthropology with Spanish BA Social Anthropology with French BA Social Anthropology with German University of Liverpool BSc Evolutionary Honours Select - a flexible degree where you can Anthropology choose to study one or two subjects and decide for yourself how much weight each subject has. LJMU Liverpool John Moores BSc Forensic University Anthropology

LSE The London School of BA Social BA Anthropology and Law Economics and Political Anthropology Science BSc Social Anthropology University of Manchester BSocSc in Social BSocSc Social Anthropology and Politics, BSocSc Anthropology (3 Social Anthropology and Philosophy, BSocSc Social years or 4 years Anthropology and Sociology, BSocSc Social with study year Anthropology and Quantitative Methods, BSocSc Social abroad) Anthropology and Criminology, BA Anthropology and Comparative Religion, BA Social Anthropology and Linguistics, BA Archaeology and Anthropology University of Oxford BA Archaeology and Anthropology BA Human Sciences

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 6 of 14 Table C: Single Honours and Joint Degrees University Single Honours Joint Degrees Oxford Brookes University BSc Anthropology BA/BSc Anthropology and Communication, Media and BSc Biological Culture, English, English Language and Anthropology Communication, Geography, History, History of Art, BSc Social International Relations, Japanese Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology Politics, Psychology, Sociology Plymouth University BA Social Anthropology BSc Biological Anthropology Queen’s University Belfast BA Social BA Social Anthropology with History, English, Irish, Anthropology Spanish, French University of Roehampton BSc Anthropology BSc Social Anthropology Combined Honours (Sociology) SOAS BA Social BA Anthropology with... African Studies, Arabic*, School of Oriental and African Anthropology Burmese, Chinese*, Development Studies, Economics, Studies Georgian, Hebrew*, History, History of Art/Archaeology, Indonesian, International Relations, Japanese*, Japanese Studies, Korean*, Law, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Persian, Politics, South Asian Studies (3 years), South Asian Studies (4 years)*, South East Asian Studies, Study of Religions, Swahili*, Thai, Tibetan , Turkish*, Vietnamese *4-year degree with (compulsory) one year abroad University of Southampton BA Archaeology and Anthropology BSc Sociology with Anthropology

University of Sussex BA Anthropology BA Anthropology with History, Geography, Cultural Studies, International Development, International Relations, Modern Language (French, Italian or Spanish) UCL University College London BSc Anthropology BA Archaeology and Anthropology BSc Anthropology UCL Institute of Archaeology with a year abroad.

UCLAN University of Central BSc Hons Forensic Science and Anthropology. Lancashire BSc Hons Archaeology and Anthropology University of Wales Trinity St. BA Anthropology BA Anthropology and Applied Psychology, BA History David BA Applied and Anthropology, BA English and Anthropology, BA Anthropology Classical Studies, Anthropology and Education Studies, BA Archaeology BA Anthropology and Chinese Civilisation, BA and Anthropology Anthropology and Heritage Studies, BA Anthropology and Chinese Studies, BA Anthropology and Heritage Management, BA Anthropology, English and Education Studies, BA Anthropology with Digital Humanities, BA Anthropology with Education Studies, BA Anthropology, Religious Studies and Education Studies, BA Philosophy and Anthropology, BA Ancient History and Anthropology, BA Religious Studies and Anthropology, BA Medieval Studies and Anthropology, BA Philosophy, Anthropology and Education Studies, BA Ancient History, Anthropology and Education Studies (plus other relevant courses)

University of Winchester BA Anthropology

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 7 of 14 Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features University Particular Interests Special Features University of Aberdeen Political Anthropology, Postcolonial Studies, Circumpolar Studies, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnographic and Fieldwork Methods. University of Birmingham The Department of African You can apply to study abroad for a year in an Studies and Anthropology approved university around the world. If you brings together a wide range achieve a grade of 2.1 or above in your first year of disciplines spanning arts then you will be invited to apply for a Year Abroad and social sciences - history, in your second year. If your application is sociology, geography, successful, you will go abroad in your third year politics, language, literature and return to us for your final year. Find out more and anthropology (both at birmingham.ac.uk/yearabroad. As a Single cultural and Honours student in the Department of African development-oriented) - and Studies and Anthropology you can also apply to fosters interaction between spend a semester abroad at one of our carefully them. The diversity of selected partner universities, where we have close regional and disciplinary personal ties with academic staff. If your perspectives is unified by a application is successful, during your time abroad common focus on local you will be able to study modules in related knowledge, a commitment subjects, including topics specific to the place of to long-term field and study. It is possible to attend universities where archival work in Africa and all the modules offered will be taught in English. the Caribbean, and collaboration with African and Caribbean colleagues. Bournemouth University Human rights, globalisation, All programmes include an optional year-long conflict and violence, placement; the various programmes also offer gender, identity, optional short placements anthropology of policy and the state, kinship, memory, birth, death and the life-course, ritual, human evolution, material culture, primatology, environment and diversity University of Bristol Human Origins, Potential to spend a teaching block abroad in the Osteoarchaeology, Evolution second year of Human Behaviour, Materialities, Globalisation and Identities, Kinship, Population and Health, Cultural Evolution and Linguistic Anthropology Brunel University London Medical Anthropology, Also offer a 4-year degree programme, which Anthropology of Childhood includes two work-placements. These placements and Youth, Anthropology of typically include ethnographic field research, Education, Anthropology of which will be incorporated into the Final Year International Development, Dissertation Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 8 of 14 Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features University Particular Interests Special Features University of Cambridge Social Anthropology: Social Anthropology: Dissertation in third year. Kinship, Economics, Politics Biological Anthropology: Biological Anthropology is and Religion, Ethnographic taught as part of the Archaeology course, either Areas (S.E. Asia, Africa, as a stand-alone track or as a combination with Middle East, S. Asia, Europe, Archaeology. Papers can also be borrowed from Inner Asia), Medical Social Anthropology, Politics, Sociology or Anthropology, Development, Psychology. 2.5 weeks excavation training the Anthropology of Ethics 4 weeks independently organised fieldwork OR and Morality. museum work (abroad or Biological Anthropology: UK-based) Biological Anthropology - human origins, evolutionary history, ecology, adaptations, genetics, behaviour, primatology, human health and disease University of Dundee Forensic Anthropology, Study Abroad option. You will be trained in our Anatomy, Forensic Science, dedicated laboratories in the world renown Centre Forensic Archaeology, for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID). Human Identification You will learn to dissect on our Thiel embalmed cadavers and have access to our extensive skeletal collections, both adult and juvenile. You have the opportunity to learn from our case active academic staff who are world leaders in their fields.

Durham University Human evolution, From 2017/18 degrees include a residential environmental anthropology, fieldwork module for all undergraduates, with a politics and development, choice of various locations in the UK and abroad material culture and art, sex as well as opportunities to study abroad for 1 year and gender, the origins and or 1 term evolution of culture, primatology, medical anthropology and global health. UEA University of East Anthropology of Overseas work experience, One-year abroad Anglia Development programme

University of Exeter Cultures of food, Race and Anthropology is taught and studied in the relatedness, department of Sociology, Philosophy and Sound, senses and art, Anthropology, and also draws on expertise from Health, illness and other departments, in particular Archaeology. wellbeing, Human-animal Our degree offer a lot of flexibility and modules relations form the wide range of disciplines can be selected Social and ethnographic as options. theory A year abroad is offered as an option for all our degree programmes. Goldsmiths, University of Visual Anthropology, Political Work placement module ‘Anthropology in Public London Economy, Material Culture, Practice’ and Erasmus agreements with Human Rights, Amsterdam, Cologne, Lisbon. Development, Gender, Migration, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of Art, Human/Animal Relations, The Caribbean, Latin America, South Asia, Europe, Post Socialism.

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 9 of 14 Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features University Particular Interests Special Features University of Kent Osteology, Palaeopathology, Year abroad options offered in Europe, Japan, Ethnobotany, Environmental Canada and the USA. Professional practice option Anthropology, Human available for all programmes. Behavioural Ecology, Flexibility to change between streams. Evolutionary Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnicity, Visual Anthropology, Primatology, Family and Kinship, Anthropology of Business University of Liverpool Palaeolithic Archaeology, Study Abroad (USA, Canada, EU) and Year Abroad Biological Anthropology (China), Archaeological fieldwork

LJMU Liverpool John Forensic Anthropology, The degree is accredited by the Chartered Society Moores University Bioarcheology, Forensic of Forensic Sciences. Science, Trauma and This is an extremely practical, hands-on Taphonomy, Facial programme. It focuses on the recovery of Reconstruction information from locations where bodies are found, as well as the human remains themselves, so you will spend a large proportion of your time out in the field (Poulton Project's excavation site in Cheshire). LSE Cognitive and Psychological Funded summer fieldwork projects; opportunity The London School of Anthropology, Activist for Year Abroad; Away Days; regular field trips in Economics and Political Anthropology, Anthropology London. Our BA in Anthropology and Law is a fully of Religion, Political and qualifying law degree recognised by the Solicitors’ Science Economic Anthropology Regulation Authority. University of Manchester Political and economic Options for semester and year abroad study anthropology, Anthropology Options for hands-on training in digital of development, Museums film-making. and material culture, Visual and sensory anthropology, Anthropology of childhood and education, Anthropology of migration and cities, Medical anthropology

University of Oxford Archaeology and 2 weeks Archaeological Dig Anthropology, Human 3 weeks Independently Organised Fieldwork Sciences: Three years training studying Social Practical Classes on Archaeological Methods & Anthropology and human Material Culture. biological sciences, including Demography, Genetics, Human Evolution and Animal Behaviour. Oxford Brookes University Anthropology of Art, Ritual, Options for year abroad organised through the Care, and Relatedness; University International exchanges programme Environmental and Economic and Erasmus exchanges. Anthropology; Human Evolution; Osteology; Paleo-anthropology; Primatology; Human-animal relations. Plymouth University Applied Anthropology, Emphasis on applied anthropology and fieldwork Communication, Cultural right from the start of the degree through to Comparison. graduation. Industry and professional connections – we work with students to identify their areas of

©Royal Anthropological Institute 2018 Page 10 of 14 specialisms and employ University and external networks to create contacts. Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features University Particular Interests Special Features Queen’s University Belfast Anthropology of music / Intensive fieldwork toward dissertation ethnomusicology, (summer of second year); QUB Work Anthropology of art / Experience programme (optional); Erasmus material culture, programme (optional). Anthropology of conflict transformation, Anthropology of religion and atheism, Anthropology of politics and nationalism, Cognitive anthropology, Human-animal relations, Anthropology of gender, emotion and the body, Australia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, India, Brazil, Greece, Cyprus, America, Scotland, Ireland. University of Roehampton Primates, Health, Unique integrated Biological and Social Human-Animal relations, Anthropology degree; 100% Student Satisfaction Tourism, Human Evolution (2014 and 2015 NSS score); 2 week field course and Diversity. in South Africa (optional); Best modern university in London (Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015); Best new university for research (Times Higher Education 2014 REF results); Student Employment Scheme (SES) SOAS School of Oriental Social anthropology with and African Studies regional focuses on Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. University of Biological Anthropology, Southampton Human Evolution, Politics and Heritage, Material Culture, regional (Greece, Latin America, Pacific). University of Sussex Political Anthropology, Work Placements and Study Abroad available Anthropology of Global Economy, Development, Religion, Migration, Medical, Human Rights and Conflict, Science and Technology UCL University College Humanity in all its aspects: Free residential field trip in the first year, option of London from evolution as a species, Turkana Basin Field School in the second year, to relationship with the option of year abroad in the third year. material world, and our vast variety of social practices and cultural forms. Special interest in Medical Anthropology.

Table D: Particular Interests and Special Features University Particular Interests Special Features UCLAN University of Forensic Anthropology, We have an extensive fieldwork or field skills Central Lancashire Taphonomy, component to our courses. Staff and students osteoarchaeology, human have been involved in fieldwork research and evolution, zooarchaeology, teaching all over the UK, and in Albania, France, landscape archaeology, cave Guatemala, India, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Libya, archaeology, funerary and Mauritius, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and mortuary practices, the United States. Forensic Anthropology teaching is heavily tied to our TRACES taphonomic Mesolithic and Neolithic of research facility, the largest outdoor forensic Britain and Ireland, decomposition facility in Europe - students have Anglo-Saxon society and unrivalled access to research into post-mortem post-medieval religion, processes, decomposition and taphonomy (both archaeology of the American forensic and palaeo-taphonomy) with leading West, the archaeology of the experts in the field. modern world, rock-art.

University of Wales Trinity Materialities, Human Study abroad in the 2nd year; volunteer St. David Engagements with the placements embedded in the curriculum; ‘learning Environment, Sustainability, through doing’ ethos; work in the Anthropology More-than-Humanism, Lab to engage with materials; fieldwork Ethnobotany (Human/Plant opportunities in each year relations), Human/Animal Relations, Relationality, Political and Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Medical Anthropology, the Body, Eating and Food. University of Winchester Migration and diaspora, Our BA (Hons) Anthropology course provides an languages and cultures opportunity for you to study abroad in the United (middle east and north States of America (USA) and in our second year Africa), ethnographic Placement module we will help you to locate a methods, gender and work placement that fits your interests. childhood, human evolution, human osteology and palaeopathology, forensic anthropology, funerary archaeology, performance and performativity, conflict and warfare, maritime/nautical archaeology and ethnography, social identity, art and visual anthropology, cultural resource management, ethnographic museums.

Table E: Contact Information

University Contact details

University of Aberdeen [email protected]

University of Birmingham Heather Cullen [email protected] Bournemouth University Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers [email protected] University of Bristol Camilla Morelli [email protected] Brunel University London Will Rollason [email protected] University of Cambridge Laure Bonner (Biological Anthropology) [email protected] Dorothy Searle (Social Anthropology) [email protected] University of Dundee Helen Langstaff [email protected]

Durham University Rosie Legg [email protected] UEA University of East Emma Gilberthorpe Anglia [email protected] University of Exeter Tom Rice [email protected]

Goldsmiths, University of Martin Webb London [email protected]

University of Kent Rebekah McComas [email protected]

LSE Nick Long The London School of [email protected] Economics and Political Science University of Manchester Chika Watanabe [email protected] University of Oxford Iain Morley [email protected]

Oxford Brookes University Jason Danely [email protected] Plymouth University Daniel Grey [email protected] LJMU Liverpool John Moores Constantine Eliopoulos University [email protected]

Queen’s University Belfast Jonathan Lanman [email protected]

Table E: Contact Information

University Contact details

SOAS School of Oriental [email protected] and African Studies

University of Southampton Joshua Pollard [email protected]

University of Sussex Evan Killick [email protected] UCL University College Undergraduate Coordinator London [email protected] UCLAN University of Central [email protected] Lancashire University of Wales Trinity Emma-Jayne Abbots St. David [email protected]

University of Winchester Heidi Dawson-Hobbis (Biological Anthropology) [email protected]

Lisa Bernasek (Social Anthropology) [email protected]