Our Research Groups

At Bristol we have a diverse array of research groups and global networks to take part in.

Within the department we have a range of research groups for researchers from across their careers. These groups encourage relevant research skills from across the four fields, as well as being a great opportunity to meet other academics with similar interests. 

This is a research group which crosses disciplines and faculties, bringing together researchers including academics, early career and postgraduate researchers and undergraduates across the university with interests in the development and/or application of scientific techniques that can be used to tackle key archaeological challenges. It is designed to help find facilities, resources and collaborators as well as explore new ideas. 

To be added to the Sharepoint site, contact Lucy Cramp.

As part of the research group, we have a bi-weekly seminars (Bristol Archaeological Science Events), bringing in external and internal speakers, as well as workshops and training sessions. These are led by PGRs (currently Dan Brown and Elena Sandoval) and activities can be guided by interests and needs of the group.

To get on the mailing list for the BASE series, contact Dan or Elena.

Our cross-faculty research group focuses on anthropological contributions to public health and policy. A unique feature of our cluster is that we consider both social and biological anthropological approaches to the study of health and wellbeing across the globe. We meet fortnightly to read & discuss journal articles; share and review our publications, conference presentations & grant applications. Through these activities we seek to stimulate new bio-social anthropological research on public health at Bristol. Group members currently include postgraduates and early career scholars from Anthropology, Geography, Philosophy, Social Policy, SPAIS and Medical Sciences.

For more information please contact Mhairi Gibson.

This research group brings together researchers (academics, early career and postgraduate researchers as well as undergraduates) from across the university with research and teaching interests in medical anthropology and the anthropology of disability and difference. Research can be situated anywhere in the world, but we particularly welcome research related to the Global South.

The group will host seminars, reading groups, and workshops, as well as facilitating opportunities for informal networking. For more information please contact Theresia Hofer.

Our department is proud to be connected to regional, national, and international research groups and networks. 

We recognise that entangled in the environmental issues that face our global community are matters of human behaviour, beliefs, values, and structures; and that critical approaches to human-environment interactions past, present and future, are essential.

The Centre supports and promotes Environmental Humanities work taking place at Bristol. We host public lectures and research seminars, help our members develop projects and partnerships, and have strong links with other groups, Centres and individuals working on EH issues around the world. 

We are a thriving research community with members from all career stages, from postgraduate to professor.

 

The Centre is an international hub for Black Humanities research in the heart of Bristol, fostering a broad range of research around the artistic and intellectual work of people of African descent. The CBH aims to reach a wide range of audiences through a diverse programme of film screenings, reading groups, performances and research collaborations with local communities; enabling our research to impact areas including the cultural industries and higher education policy.  

Current interdisciplinary projects include work on Black Health and the Humanities, Black British Art, African Literary Activism, and UK Hip-Hop, ethics and social justice, slavery and its legacies, and race and genetics in contemporary fiction.

The Asian Borderland Research Network (ABRN) is an active research network of scholars, activists, writers, film-makers and policy makers with a shared focus on borderlands across South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia. In close collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, and various partnership institutions worldwide, ABRN aims to encourage academic exchange between network members from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Taking Asian borderlands as unique geo-political regions that connect rather than separate, ABRN recognises the importance of varied histories and experiences of emplacement, replacement, and displacement when situated identities and local livelihoods are in constant negotiation with larger political and economic forces.

To know more about the work we do, please contact Juan Zhang for more information

DPIN is an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners and advocates working in the field of drugs and drug policy. The network links colleagues at the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and elsewhere with advocacy groups and practitioners based in Bristol and the wider Southwest region. The network is designed to: support and promote collaborative research; share knowledge and latest research regarding drugs and drug policy; support early-career colleagues working in the field; co-produce academic events, manuscripts, teaching material and policy briefings; as well as support advocacy initiatives. At regular meetings, members are invited to present or discuss current issues, share ideas and present research. 

Please contact Neil Carrier for more information.