prospectus

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The programme offers a
preliminary step towards
a research degree and can
also serve as an introduction
to anthropology for those who
have studied other subjects.
Course content
• Anthropological Research
Methods 1 and 2
• Anthropology of Europe
• Special Topics in the
Anthropology of Europe
• Theory and Ethnography in
Social Anthropology 1 and 2
• Two additional modules in
social anthropology
• Dissertation of 12-15,000
words
Social Anthropology and
Visual Ethnography MA
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Location: Canterbury
This programme teaches visual
anthropology theory and practice
in combination with the expansive
research methodologies and
ethnographic focus of social
anthropology. You explore the use
of collaborative video production
to represent anthropological
knowledge, developing critical
skills of visual and multisensory
analysis. You have access to
professional video equipment and
video-editing software, and have
the opportunity to submit a mixed
AV dissertation.
The programme offers a
preliminary step towards
a research degree and can
also serve as an introduction
to anthropology for those who
have studied other subjects.
Course content
• Anthropological Research
Methods 1 and 2
• Theory and Ethnography in
Social Anthropology 1 and 2
• Visual Anthropology Theory
• Visual Anthropology Video
Project
• Two additional modules in
social anthropology
• Dissertation of 12-15,000
words or dissertation of 7,500
words plus a multimedia
component
Research programmes
For the most up-to-date information,
see website details below.
The breadth of expertise within
the School enables us to provide
research supervision on a wide
range of topics. For further
information, please refer to
staff details on our web pages:
www.kent.ac.uk/sac
Research students are
encouraged to attend
modules from the taught Master’s
(eg, in theory and field methods)
and from the undergraduate
programme. Kent’s Graduate
School runs a Researcher
Development Programme
for all postgraduate students.
Anthropology MA, PhD
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Biological Anthropology MSc
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Ethnobiology MSc, PhD
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Location: Canterbury
We welcome students with the
appropriate background for
research. The first year may
include coursework, especially
methods modules for students
who need additional training.
In general, you work closely
with one supervisor, although
you have a committee of
three (including your primary
supervisor) overseeing your
progress. If your research is
in the area of applied computing
in social anthropology, you also
have a supervisor from the School
of Computing.
STAFF PROFILE
Tracy Kivell
Reader in Biological
Anthropology
Dr Kivell came to Kent from
the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
(Leipzig, Germany). Her
research focuses on the
anatomy and function of the
hand in humans, other living
primates, and our fossil human
ancestors, to understand
how our locomotion and
manipulative abilities have
evolved. Tracy addresses these
questions of hand evolution
through the biomechanics of
primate locomotion and human
tool use, and analyses of the
external and internal structure
of bones.
She is Director of the Animal
Postcranial Evolution (APE)
Laboratory within the Skeletal
Biology Research Centre in the
School of Anthropology and
Conservation.
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