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How one Cambridge researcher is reaching beyond academia to enhance societal understanding of witchcraft and possession. Dr Naomi Richman has always been interested in contemporary spirituality, particularly the global movements that seem to disrupt predictions of sweeping secularisation. “That's what led me to...

Dr Natalia Buitron has had a deep connection to the Amazon since childhood. Her PhD led her back to study the region and its indigenous people more closely. And the Amazon has shaped her research and teaching ever since, resulting in long-term fieldwork with the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia. She has held the Jessica...

Two ambitious researchers have pooled their collective expertise to develop a very local approach to the global climate emergency. ‘Precipice thinking’ is how social anthropologists Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson and Dr Hildegard Diemberger describe the critical phase reached in their shared research. For the past two years, they...

“What is it about the life and work of Stuart Hall that ‘calls’ on us to think biographically?” Professor David Scott asked in this year’s W.H.R. Rivers Memorial Lecture. In one sense, the answer is obvious. Stuart Hall led an exemplary life. His intellectual achievements and range were formidable: the founding editorship...