Our world is experiencing humanitarian and environmental challenges of disturbing dimensions. This programme addresses these challenges from a human and ethical angle, exploring the social, political, economic and technological aspects of the crises that mark our contemporary world.<br>Study Social Anthropology to deepen your understanding the roots of global challenges and human suffering – and to make a difference to today's complex world. Our programme provides excellent preparation for a wide range of careers such as non-governmental organisations aimed at humanitarian issues and state initiatives providing aid in response to conflict or planetary emergency.<br>You'll explore how to study humanitarian or environmental crises from an anthropological point of view using a variety of ethnographic research methods, such as interviewing, participant observation, and localised surveys.<br><br>Assess key challenges emerging from humanitarian initiatives that respond to the global climate emergency, environmental movements in national contexts, migration, diaspora and refugee crises, racism, xenophobia and national politics, war and conflict, new forms of economic oppression, and the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences for vulnerable communities.