Anthropology Beyond the Academy

Event Introduction: Digital Ethnography, Storytelling and Grassroots Community Building How can academic research, particularly digital ethnography, transcend the boundaries of academia to create real-world, community-driven impact? In this session, we’ll explore how research skills can be effectively applied to grassroots...

Jonathan Woolley is an environmental anthropologist/ behavioural scientist, currently advising on the design of funding schemes for environmental land management in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He completed his PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology in 2018, which focused on the...

Anthropology beyond the Academy: A conversation with Xara Zabihi Dutton (Gemic) In recent years, companies, NGOs and other organisations have increasingly turned to ethnographic and other qualitative methods to shape their policy and strategic decisions. What is it like to work at this interface? How do you build a career...

Dr Carine Durand (Musée d'ethnographie de Genève) Recognizing indigenous peoples' rights through museum practice in Switzerland Bio: Dr Carine Ayélé DURAND is a social anthropologist who graduated from Cambridge University in 2010. Over the past 20 years, she has held various positions as curator and researcher in cultural...

Writing for journalism – a masterclass with Dr Johannes Lenhard As anthropologists, we are well trained to write. We rarely use this skill beyond academia, however. Writing well does not only still sell reasonably well but is also an important counter-force against mis-information, clickbait and the like-economy. In this...

Sandi Toksvig is a writer, comedian and broadcaster, and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party. She’s currently in Cambridge, having been awarded the first Q+ fellowship by the LGBTQ+ research programme of the Department of Sociology. As an undergraduate, she studied Archaeology and Anthropology, and she’ll be talking...

Anthropology Beyond the Academy seminar On writing as an anthropologist Anthropologists write a lot, more than many other scholars, and arguably, our monographs often are as beautifully crafted and accessible as novels. Our discipline is prone to produce good writers - but are we taking our skills we work so hard to...

Think tanks, policymaking and civil society Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock What kind of employment or workplace attracts anthropologists once they leave university? How do they explain to non-anthropologists what it is that they are good at and what their studies have taught them that can be applied practically and with relevance...

Open careers talk from global ethnographic consultancy ReD Associates Join us for the first of this term's Anthropology Beyond the Academy seminars. An open careers talk from a global ethnographic consultancy ReD Associates , a highly successful ‘human science-based strategy consultancy’. Find out more about the use of...

Anthropology Beyond the Academy Seminar with Cornelia Sorabji Anthropology and Diplomacy Dr Cornelia Sorabji CBE is a Counsellor on Strategy & External Expertise and in the Strategy Directorate/Research Analysts at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the Government. Cornelia’s Cambridge PhD was about...