Anthropology Beyond the Academy

With alumnus Tom England From Cambridge to the Creative Industries Since leaving Cambridge, Tom England has worked in a number of diverse settings as an actor, writer, creative project coordinator, and freelance artist, from performing in the West End to leading dementia friendly arts projects in the West Midlands. In this...

With alumnus Professor David Prendergast (Maynooth University) The Life and Times of a Corporate Anthropologist In 2006, David Prendergast received an intriguing invitation to become involved in the establishment of a $36 million research centre focused on sociotechnical research and design of technologies for independent...

With alumni Nina Fudge and Alisi Mekatoa The anthropologist will see you now: applied health research in public health and primary care Alisi Mekatoa and Nina Fudge will discuss how their undergraduate experiences of anthropology, in particular medical anthropology, have influenced their careers working in applied health...

Once an Anthropologist, Always an Anthropologist? With alumnus Sofka Zinovieff, journalist and writer Sofka will talk about how her studies in social anthropology have influenced her life and work. After completing a PhD on contemporary Greek identity, she became a journalist and writer with a lifelong connection to Greece...

From Clifford Geertz to the Greatest Showman With alumnus Cameron Saunders, executive vice-president (EMEA) at Paramount Pictures How a degree in social anthropology took me into the world of advertising and marketing, from launching the mobile phone brand Orange, to creating the cultural phenomenon that was ‘The Greatest...

Sir Antony Gormley Inside Australia Film screening and in conversation ‘Inside Australia’ is Hugh Brody's documentary about Sir Antony Gormley's evolving relationship with the people of Menzies, Western Australia and his stunning art installation on Lake Ballard, where his 51 sculptures stand over 10 square km celebrating...

Richard Clarke: Reflections from a social anthropologist in the civil service Alumnus Richard Clarke is Director General for Policy, Research and Humanitarian, at the Department for International Development. Image credit: Tony Moorey Flickr

Dr Sigrid Rausing in conversation with Professor Caroline Humphrey: Anthropology and the Art of Writing Memoir Dr Sigrid Rausing, Editor of Granta and author of acclaimed memoirs Everything is Wonderful , based on her diaries from anthropological fieldwork on an Estonian collective farm in the early 1990s, and Mayhem ...

'Our values, their culture - a career in squaring the diplomatic circle’ A talk by SocAnth alumnus Gareth Ward, current British Ambassador to Vietnam, sharing experience from 20 years working in Russia and China