Staff research projects Listing of sub links Explore our current staff research projects within the Department of Anthropology Profiling Inside Out: Surveillance, Resistance, Collaboration Building on long-term collaboration with a migrant-led activist project in Italy, ‘Profiling inside out’ opens spaces for reflection, collaboration, and action on racial profiling. Data Worlds and Futures: Archives, Bioinformation and Evidence This Wellcome Trust Small Research Grant-funded project led by Dr EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Dr Silvia Posocco (Birkbeck) explores the relation between bioinformation, infrastructures and evidence in relation to forensic archival practices and data processing. Welcome to GAMSOC GAMSOC is a project about gambling in Europe. It explores how regulations and technologies are framing a diversity of gambling products and behaviours across geographical, legal, historical and conceptual boundaries. MEDEA Models and their Effects on Development paths: an Ethnographic and comparative Approach to knowledge transmission and livelihood strategies. Massimiliano Mollona One of Massimiliano Mollona's main research interests is to look at the role of art institutions and cultural organizations in relation to the bio-politics and political economy of late capitalism. Youth Uncertainty Rights World Research Insecurity and uncertainty: Marginalised youth living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Nepal and Ethiopia Funded by ESRC/DFID Poverty Alleviation Fund [ES/N014391/1 and ES/N014391/2] Food poverty and food aid in the UK This project considers the recent rise of food poverty in a context of austerity and precarity HAIRY MATTERS Hairy Matters began as the project,'Head to Head: Untangling the Global Trade in Human Hair', funded through a major research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust ( 2013-2016). 'People Like You': Contemporary Figures of Personalisation This research project aims to contribute to critical medical humanities by investigating an emergent culture of personalisation in the UK, associated with concepts of the person and health. Red Gold: A global environmental anthropology of palm oil Funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2018-2021), this three-year research project presents a multi-faceted exploration of palm oil Jaankaar (Knowledgeable) Leveraging Everyday Innovations in Governance and Accountability Research Podcast: Reflections on Crises A series of four interviews that aims to share conversations between researchers in the Department of Anthropology and beyond. Past Research Projects Past research projects within the Department of Anthropology
Profiling Inside Out: Surveillance, Resistance, Collaboration Building on long-term collaboration with a migrant-led activist project in Italy, ‘Profiling inside out’ opens spaces for reflection, collaboration, and action on racial profiling.
Data Worlds and Futures: Archives, Bioinformation and Evidence This Wellcome Trust Small Research Grant-funded project led by Dr EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Dr Silvia Posocco (Birkbeck) explores the relation between bioinformation, infrastructures and evidence in relation to forensic archival practices and data processing.
Welcome to GAMSOC GAMSOC is a project about gambling in Europe. It explores how regulations and technologies are framing a diversity of gambling products and behaviours across geographical, legal, historical and conceptual boundaries.
MEDEA Models and their Effects on Development paths: an Ethnographic and comparative Approach to knowledge transmission and livelihood strategies.
Massimiliano Mollona One of Massimiliano Mollona's main research interests is to look at the role of art institutions and cultural organizations in relation to the bio-politics and political economy of late capitalism.
Youth Uncertainty Rights World Research Insecurity and uncertainty: Marginalised youth living rights in fragile and conflict affected situations in Nepal and Ethiopia Funded by ESRC/DFID Poverty Alleviation Fund [ES/N014391/1 and ES/N014391/2]
Food poverty and food aid in the UK This project considers the recent rise of food poverty in a context of austerity and precarity
HAIRY MATTERS Hairy Matters began as the project,'Head to Head: Untangling the Global Trade in Human Hair', funded through a major research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust ( 2013-2016).
'People Like You': Contemporary Figures of Personalisation This research project aims to contribute to critical medical humanities by investigating an emergent culture of personalisation in the UK, associated with concepts of the person and health.
Red Gold: A global environmental anthropology of palm oil Funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2018-2021), this three-year research project presents a multi-faceted exploration of palm oil
Research Podcast: Reflections on Crises A series of four interviews that aims to share conversations between researchers in the Department of Anthropology and beyond.
