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Applications are now open for the new MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society. The new MPhil is jointly run by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Social Anthropology and Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. The course offers a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to teaching...

The University of Cambridge is hosting its first Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. Attending the open day is an excellent way to explore the graduate courses and opportunities available at the University of Cambridge. Throughout the day there will be a variety of subject presentations, sample lectures and...

Drowning in a paper sea: India’s welfare efforts failed by its peculiar bureaucracy India’s sophisticated laws and progressive policies fail with startling regularity. A new study locates a possible reason as to why in the convoluted bureaucratic system of the Indian state and its obsession with paper. One of the world’s...

Winner: Theodore Park (King’s College) Every year, the division awards a prize of £200 to the most outstanding IIB dissertation. The prize is named in memory of Dr Sue Benson (1955-2005), an anthropologist who lectured, supervised and directed studies in Cambridge for 26 years and was an inspiration both personally and...