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What makes a piece of poetry, fiction or a sound recording also anthropological? How can drawing or sketching become ethnographic? Is it enough that the work is by an anthropologist or ethnographer? How can we make these alternative forms of expression more visible and legitimate, yet also uphold academic standards?

How a rewired education system that values marginalised forms of knowledge can reach far beyond minority communities.

AIM: PhD is an application support programme, designed to support PhD applicants with their application for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge. Over the course of six months, participants receive support to prepare their PhD application through one-to-one mentoring and group online sessions.

Following a six-year ERC-funded research project on the comparative anthropology of free speech, Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood and Fiona Wright have published a large open-access edited volume entitled Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power.