PhD Social Anthropology

Program Overview

Join one of the leading Anthropology departments in the UK where a diverse community of expert faculty and doctoral students carry out cutting-edge research. You’ll be part of a lively and global PhD community of researchers who conduct ethnographic and theoretical research on social and human life across the world. We’re proud of our interdisciplinary engagement with a range of fields, and we have a particularly close affinity with development studies, cultural studies, global health and human geography amongst others.

Within the School of Global Studies, we host one of the UK’s largest doctoral research communities in Anthropology, where diversity, inclusion and representation give our community a unique identity.

Sussex Anthropology has a reputation for world-leading research and a commitment to studying global issues, including: health, science and the body; gender and sexuality; human rights, justice and violence; politics, power and political movements; the global economy, finance and development; moral and alternative economies; race, ethnicity and indigeneity; religion and religious practices; environment, natural resources and extractive industries; migration, transnationalism and connectivity;visual anthropology, culture and media.

For a PhD, your research work makes a substantial original contribution to knowledge or understanding in your chosen field.