我们的社会人类学小组形成了国际一流的研究生培训中心，被公认为英国最主要的研究部门之一。应用研究包括有关寻求庇护者，非政府组织，可持续发展和参与权的政策相关工作。我们的区域专业知识不仅限于苏格兰和英国，还包括欧洲，非洲，中东，南亚，东南亚，东亚以及北美和南美。
Our Social Anthropology group forms an international centre of excellence for postgraduate training, recognised as one of the premier research departments in the UK. Applied research includes policy-related work on asylum seekers, non-governmental organisations, sustainable development and participatory rights. Our regional expertise is not confined to Scotland and the UK but includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North and South America. Particular research strengths include: law and justice, politics, governance and the state, nationalism and citizenship, war, violence and displacement, medicine and health, science and technology studies, history and theory of anthropology, development and environment, kinship and relatedness, death and the limits of the body, material culture, identity and memory, contemporary hunter-gatherers, linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology, anthropology of landscape.