Postgraduates are fully integrated into academic life in Aberdeen. All graduate students are provided with personal computers, office space and access to an excellent central computing service. Postgraduate students also have access to the University's well stocked library, as well as rare manuscript and printed materials in Special Collections and the University’s extensive anthropological and ethnographic museum collections

Training workshops are held at regular intervals throughout each academic year for postgraduate students and staff. Week-long pre- and post-fieldwork events are organised jointly with other Anthropology departments in Scotland under the ESRC Scottish Training in Anthropological Research programme (STAR). Further joint postgraduate events are held with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.