Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 Year
The SOAS MA in Medical Anthropology and Mental Health facilitates understanding of health from diverse perspectives and investigates the complexity of human suffering, as well as varied forms of healing and treatment.
The programme offers training in anthropological approaches to the major health and mental health challenges of our time. Drawing on ethnographic research, clinical knowledge, lived experience and cross-cultural comparison, it explores health as embedded in historical and social forces such as climate change, coloniality, displacement, and intersecting inequalities including race and gender.
The programme equips graduates with conceptual tools for anthropological analysis and methodological skills in ethnographic research. Students are also introduced to insights from disciplines adjacent to anthropology, including psychology, transcultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, biomedicine, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Students’ anthropological skills will be honed through closely supervised original research projects in areas of individual interest, written up as a dissertation.
We will consider all applications with a 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher in a social science or humanities subject. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.
The MA Medical Anthropology and Mental Health equips our graduates with basic skills in anthropological analysis and ethnographic research that are also usable in a variety of healthcare and other settings. Our graduates are prepared for a wide range of employment.
They have pursued careers in healthcare, academia, communications, policy, finance, tech, and education in government, corporate, humanitarian, and non-profit sectors. Our graduates have been hired by employers such as:
The NHS
Allen & Overy
BBC
British Council
Deloitte
Hackney Migrant Centre
IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development)
IOM- UN Migration
Media 52
New York Times
Social Mobility Foundation
The Week
UNICEF
United Nations Development Programme
World Bank Group
Core
60 credits core
799A Dissertation (MA) in Anthropology - 60 credits
Open
Compulsory
75 credits compulsory
702 Ethnographic Research Methods - 15 credits
Open
753 Mind, Culture and Psychiatry - 15 credits
Open
755 Bodies and Cultures - 15 credits
Open
754 Medical Anthropology: Global Perspectives - 15 credits
Open
701 Contemporary Anthropological Theory - 15 credits
Open
Guided options
Between 15 and 45 credits guided options
797A Directed Practical Study: Placements in the Field - 15 credits
Open
750B Ethnographic Locations: East Asia - 15 credits
Open
750A Ethnographic Locations: Sub-Saharan Africa - 15 credits
Open
750D Ethnographic Locations: South Asia - 15 credits
Open
752 Anthropology of 'Race', Gender and Sexuality - 15 credits
Open
724 Migration, Borders and Space: Decolonial Approaches - 15 credits
Open
723 Diet, Society and Environment - 15 credits
Open
750E Ethnographic Locations: Southeast Asia - 15 credits
Open
Open options
Students can take a maximum of 30 credits from the School-wide open options list, including languages.
SOAS University of London is a world-leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, offering a postgraduate experience t...
