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STAR at The Burn
The Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) course for postgraduate students took place in April 2022. This course is organised by the consortium of anthropology departments at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews universities. Students have talks, classes and workshops preparing them for fieldwork. The course traditionally takes place over a few...
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Student Prizes!
Congratulations to our students Annie Nichol, Sara Schmidt and Astrid Offersen, who have all been awarded prizes in this years graduating lists. Well done to all of you! Annie Nichol – prize for Best Dissertation in Anthropology Sara Schmidt – prize for Best Student in Anthropology (Single Honours) Astrid Offersen – prize for...
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Student Awarded Prestigious Wenner-Gren Grant
Congratulations to Laura Goyhenex, anthropology PhD student, for winning a prestigious grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to conduct her fieldwork with Smith’s Landing First Nation (Tthebatthı Dënésułıné) in Canada. Laura’s doctoral project is on roads for the First Nations communities in the changing Subarctic landscapes (NWT and Alberta, Canada). Well...
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Emeritus Professor Tim Ingold Awarded CBE!
We are very proud to announce that our colleague Tim Ingold, author of The Perception of the Environment, Lines and other key anthropological texts, has been awarded a CBE for his services to Anthropology! To learn more, visit the article at the Press and Journal.