Current PhD students
Find out what some of our postgraduate researchers are working on.
- Alexandra Tomkins
- Angelique Michaels - Anthropology of infrastructure, urban studies, spatial politics, post-apartheid Cape Town
- Ben French - Digital Anthropology, Social Media, Selfhood, Imaginations
- Ciaran Cowham - Value, Agroecology, Food, Britain
- Cristina Sayuri Andrade de Toma - resource extraction, energy transitions, inequality, and the politics of development in Latin America
- Daniel Trlifaj - urban ecologies, hacking and tinkering, prefigurative politics, former Yugoslavia
- Desta Alemayehu Bekele
- Devan Perry
- Edward Ephithite Lindholm - Anthropology of Water, Social Movements, Futures, Latin America
- Elizabeth Woods
- Genevieve Collins - Arctic Anthropology, Climate, Social Studies of Outer Space, Sound, Creative Methods
- Hanna Oosterveen - Arctic, Science and Technology Studies, climate change, uncertainty
- Inci Unal - Visual anthropology, climate activism, environmental justice, creative methods
- Jennifer Moore - Anthropology of development, East Africa, menstrual health and hygiene, gender
- Jingyao Yang - Visual anthropology; Chinese ethnographic filmmaking
- Jonathan Craig - Anthropology of Britain, migration, hospitality, neo-nationalism
- Lojine Hanoun
- Lydia Donohue - Visual anthropology, materiality, liveliness, craft
- Maria Jordan Edwards - Andes, foodways, food security, rural development, peasant farmers
- Zeynep Kucuk - Disaster anthropology, affect theory, surface and materiality, emotional geography
- Maryam Fouad - Gender and Sexuality, Egypt, Confinement, the State
- Mathieu Lamontagne-Cumiford - Arctic Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cartography, Place-making
- Natalie Wood - Play, political economy, temporality, anthropology of Britain
- Nourhan Maher - Migration, displacement, post-revolution, diaspora
- Rebecca Appleton - Poetry, Co-creative and Visual methods, Literary Anthropology, Anthropology of the Middle East
- Rebecca Higginbottom - Infertility, selfhood, imagined futures, creative and sensory methods
- Roy Claire Potter
- Salma Moustafa Khalil
- Shirley Van Der Maarel - Refugees, depopulation, creative research methods
- Soheila Shourbaji - Succession, land tenure, auction markets, economic anthropology
- Tejas Chandrasekar - Creative AI, jazz, improvisation
- Vanessa Lefton - Inequality in Britain, creative methods, social infrastructure, care
- Vitor de Melo
- Wenqi Huang - Deathbots, AI intimacy, Digital afterlife, Hauntology, Cyborg, Posthumanism
- Yaru Yang - Transnational Migration, Language and Racialisation, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Everyday Life, China-Africa
- Yuqin Zhang - Human-AI intimacy, Otaku culture, Queer & Posthuman Perspectives, Virtual self and virtual partners, Digital ethnography
- Bonanno, Letizia – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna (2026–2028).
Thesis title: ‘Pharmaceutical redemption: the reconfiguration of care in austerity ridden Athens’. - Borisova, Elena – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Sussex (2023–2026).
Thesis title: ‘Being immobile at a time of mass migration: labour migrants with re-entry bans and their families in northern Tajikistan’. - Ciocănel, Alexandra – User Researcher.
Thesis title: ‘Financing the house of your dreams: mortgage credit and the making of time, value, and class in Bucharest (Romania)’. - Fians, Guilherme – Research Development Officer and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘Citizens of the World: negotiating and juggling identities and engagements amongst Esperanto speakers’. - Folz, Jasmine – Research Associate, Human Computer Systems, University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘Free and open-source software in India: reconfiguring technology, autonomy and the state’. - Gunson, Jeremy – Proofreading, copy editing, and translation services.
Thesis title: ‘Between neoliberal multiculturalism and autonomy: the case of Totonacapan’. - Hawkins, Skyler – Lecturer in Politics of Race & Ethnicity, Newcastle University.
Thesis title: ‘Traversing the Personal and the Political: An Ethnographic Study of Progressive Women in North Carolina Politics’. - Hoeck, Kristian – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen.
Thesis title: ‘My identity is walking around without me’. - Jeong, Jong Min – Research Fellow, Chonnam National University (Korea).
Thesis title: ‘Becoming-dementia as a potential condition of co-dwelling in everyday life’. - Nascimento, Joana – Research Fellow, University of Cambridge.
Thesis title: ‘Working the fabric: resourcefulness, belonging and island life in the Harris Tweed industry of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland’. - Ojani, Chakad – Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, Stockholm University.
Thesis title: ‘“Oceans in the sky”: fog harvesting in times of water scarcity and infrastructural absence in Peru’. - Perczel, Julia – Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘(In)formalising the E-waste Economy: toxicity, circular economy and waste work in Delhi’. - Pushkar, Piyush – NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘Moral and civic reasoning in the NHS’. - Schüler Costa, Vlad – Senior Academic Advisor, University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘Science after humans: an ethnography of a "science automation lab"’. - Silva Rocha Lima, Pedro – Research Associate, University of Bristol.
Thesis title: ‘The ICRC in Brazil: humanitarianism in negotiation’. - Stefanelli, Alice – Associate Professor, Durham University.
Thesis title: ‘“Who is this city for?” Explorations on public space and civic mobilisation in contemporary Beirut’. - Thorne, Judy – Lecturer, University of Manchester.
Thesis title: ‘Hope and despair in the Greek crisis: an ethnography of utopia at the margins of Europe’. - Valdivieso, Diego – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Thesis title: ‘Bureaucracy beyond the desk. Mobilising resources and hunting for users for a state-led development programme in Chiloé, Chile’. - Walker-Crawford, Noah – Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics and at Imperial College London.
Thesis title: ‘Scaling responsibility: Andean responses to climate disaster’. - Yáñez Serrano, Paloma – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Thesis title: ‘Sensorial experiences of the agro-city: the case of Spain's 'plastic sea'’.