Research, Impact and Engagement
We are one of the largest departments of Anthropology in the UK, spanning social anthropology, evolutionary anthropology and the anthropology of health.
Research Groups
Our three thematic subject groups enable development and exchange of knowledge and expertise. Staff and graduate students belong to one or more of these groups, as suited to their academic interests. The Department supports interdisciplinary research across a number of the University’s Institutes,
Research Centres and Institutes
Durham University produces world leading and world changing research. The Anthropology Department is involved in a diverse range of research centres and institutes.
What's new?
Spotlight on: Professor Jane Macnaughton - Understanding the lived experience of health and illness
How can we use people’s lived experience of health and illness to improve clinical practice? This has been the focus for Professor Jane Macnaughton as the founder of our Institute for Medical Humanities. For the last 25 years, Jane has been at the forefront of this area of research, striving to humanise medical education.
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New report exposes alarming conditions in UK asylum housing
National biodiversity award for MammalWeb project
Medical humanities pioneer to oversee influential bioethics council
Alumnus Jeremiah Thoronka makes Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list
Monitoring the UK’s at-risk hedgehogs
New spy cameras reveal surprising behaviours of chacma baboons
Taught Masters Degrees
We offer a range of postgraduate taught programmes offering the opportunity to pursue advance specialist courses across Social, Health and Evolutionary Anthropology.
Research Degrees
A vibrant postgraduate research community gives you one of the most diverse and exciting research environments in the UK. Together we carry out research on every inhabited continent including everything from primate behaviour to rhetoric culture and indigenous knowledge to internet technologies.
Get in touch
Contact us to find out more about undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities in our Department.
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building
South Road
Durham, DH1 3LE