Postgraduate Information

Recently completed PhD theses

Thesis

Student and year of award Post-PhD destination
People on the Move: Development Projects and Use of Landscape by Northern Baikal Reindeer Herders, Hunters and Fishers. Vladimir Davydov, 2011

Senior Researcher in the

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology,

Russion Academy of Sciences,

St. Petersburg.

Becoming Friends of the Earth: An anthropology of global environmentalism Caroline Gatt, 2011

2011/12 Sociological Review Fellowship,

Keele University

Nammeq: Personal autonomy and everyday communication in East Greenland

Sophie Elixhauser. 2011 Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Augsburg, Germany

Bringing stone circles into being: practices in the long 19th century and their influence on current understandings of stone circles in north east Scotland (abstract)

Elizabeth Curtis, 2011 Lecturer, School of Education, University of Aberdeen

Becoming related: the performance of ‘savagery’ and sociality in 17th century New France

Darrin Russell, 2011  

‘You have to love it’: pedagogy and literacy with Teetl’it Gwich’in (abstract)

Peter Loovers, 2011 RAI Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology, Goldsmiths College London

An Argument of Images Through A Symbolist Lens: Public & Private Experiences of Craft Worlds in North-East Scotland

Kathryn Harriman, 2011  

Thinking like a river: an anthropology of water and its uses along the Kemi River, northern Finland

(abstract)
Franz Krause, 2010 Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucester.
Negotiating Belonging: Ritual, Performance and Buriat National Culture in Pribaikal’e, Southern Siberia Joseph Long, 2010 Post-doctoral fellowship, Siberian Studies Centre, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle.
EU Integration as Reconfiguration of Value: Work and Resourcefulness in the Southern Carpathian Mountains of Romania Katy Fox, 2010  

The Migration of Scots to Québec: Montreal's Scottish Public Community and the Formation of Identities, from the 18th to the 21st Century.

Catherine Bourbeau, 2010  
Sociality of Dance: Eskimo Dance among Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, Alaska   Hiroko Ikuta, 2010 Postdoctoral Dickey Fellowship, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA)
Thinking, building, dwelling. Examining Earthships in Taos and Fife. Rachel Harkness, 2009 Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Enacted and Emplaced Power and Luck among Orochen-Evenki of the Zabaikal Region in East Siberia (abstract)

Donatas Brandisauskas, 2009 Post-doctoral Fellow, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Experiencing the lifeworld of Druids: A cultural phenomenology of perception Thorsten Gieser, 2009  
Towards an anthropology in life: The astrological architecture of Zanadroandrena Land in West Bezanozano, Madagascar (abstract) Christel Mattheeuws, 2009  
Fishing for Souls: Faith and Community in a Moray Fishing Village. Carolyn Burchill, 2008  

Walking the land, feeding the fire. Becoming and being knowledgeable among the Tlicho Dene (abstract)

Allice Legat, 2007  
"Ever against the wind..." Lifescapes and environmental perception among Sámi reindeer tenders in Västerbotten, Sweden (abstract) Anna Järpe, 2007  
Knowing caribou: Inuit, ecological science and traditional ecological knowledge in the Canadian Arctic (abstract) Peter Bates, 2006 Research Consultant, Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Programme, UNESCO, Paris.

Towards a Theory of Notation as a Thinking Tool (abstract)

Raymond Lucas, 2006 Research Fellow, Dept of Architecture, University of Strathclyde.
To a Different Canoe: A Study of Cultural Pragmatics and Continuity - (abstract) Mark Ebert, 2006 Lab Instructor and Sessional Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Fishing the Past, Managing the Future: Crisis and Change in Shetland Fisheries Alyson Ramsay, 2006  
Post Colonial Gender Relations in Greenland Karla Williamson, 2006 Research Coordinator, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada
Inuit perception, knowledge and use of the sea in Arviat, Nunavut Martina Tyrrell, 2005

Lecturer in Nature, Society and Development, Dept of Geography, University of Reading.

Readiness and skill in an Arctic environment: procurement, distribution and game playing Kerrie Ann Shannon, 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks