Anthropology

Small scale societies maintain an egalitarian social structure by a process of intentional levelling. These are behaviours that ensure others do not take leadership roles or form social hierarchies. By collecting data across a large number small scale societies, I want to test this idea and see whether it is relevant to the sorts of behaviours taking place on social media today.  

This internship would suit students studying Life Sciences, Social Science, anthropology and humanities. 

Dr William Tantam: Challenging silences: Disclosures of non-recent child sexual abuse 

Challenging silences’ is a co-produced, interdisciplinary project which will develop understandings of the barriers to disclosures for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse, and the poor responses by those who receive such disclosures. The internship would consist of processing interview data, conducting a review of existing literature around disclosures and responses to disclosures, and feeding research insights into the production of a mobile phone app by a Computer Science team at Bristol. It offers the opportunity to combine primary data with existing knowledge and drive social change. The intern would be supervised and supported by Dr William Tantam, Lecturer in Anthropology.   

This internship would suit students studying anthropology, sociology and cognate disciplines (preferably qualitative subjects rather than quantitative, though there would be scope for training up)