Student Opportunities

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This is a student-led initiative that aims to think about and discuss what decolonising knowledge might mean today. Students have organised activites such as fortnightly meetings structured around film screenings, presentations, and the discussion of recent writings on decolonisation.

The Department enlists Student Academic Reps 'Student Reps' for each academic year. These Reps play a critical role by gathering peer feedback, presenting it at termly Students-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) meetings, and working with the Department to resolve ongoing issues. They are an integral part of representing Student Voice within the Department.

Find more information about Student Academic Reps and student voice here.

What do Student Community Ambassadors do?
Every year we recruit Student Community Ambassadors to support the student community by hosting a weekly event for undergraduate students. Events range from film screenings, arts and crafts, career masterclasses and more!

Not only do the ambassadors manage the Common Room space, they listen to the needs of students and represent the department at events so that prospective students can find out more about what it's like to study in the department.

How to become a student Community Ambassador?
1st and 2nd year students are invited to apply for the position each year. A job advert will be circulated via email for this paid position. 

What do Student Communications Ambassadors do?
They are creative content creators that take over the LSE Anthropology Instagram account, creating content that builds a sense of community as well as demystifies anthropology and the student experience.  They also represent the department at events so that prospective students can find out more about what it's like to study in the department.

How to become a student Communications Ambassador?
1st and 2nd year students are invited to apply for the position each year. A job advert will be circulated via email for this paid position. 

The LSE Department of Anthropology invites applications from second year undergraduates on its programmes for the inaugural Jim Pines Award. 

This Award, which is made possible by a bequest from his family, celebrates the life and achievements of Jim Pines, an alumnus of the department. Jim was born in the US but moved to the UK in 1965, studying Social Anthropology at the LSE from 1975 to 1978. Throughout a varied career, Jim worked as a film historian, author and filmmaker, and he oversaw the emergence of a movement of young black filmmakers across the UK. He was particularly interested in Black film and cinema from Africa and the Global South, and in a 1971 essay on ‘Blacks in the Cinema’ he wrote: ‘The black media-image serves a purpose; and once that purpose is understood, one can disrupt the system producing it.’ 

The Jim Pines Award will be made to a second-year undergraduate intending to research issues central to Jim’s work, including but not limited to: black film and media, cinema from Africa and/or the Global South, racism in media and/or academia, and the black experience in the UK and elsewhere. Copies of books and articles by Jim Pines are available in the Anthropology Library. 

For students applying to the Summer Ethnography Project, the Award will be made in addition to the budget for fieldwork. Students not applying to the SEP may still apply to the Jim Pines Award in relation to preparatory library or archival work for their third-year dissertation. 

The Award winner will be invited to present their research and its findings at the Department’s annual presentation of Summer Ethnography Projects in the autumn term. 

Applications should be no more than two pages of A4 and should set out a research proposal for ethnographic and/ or library and/ or archival research. The deadline for applications will be published shortly. If you have any queries about the Award, or need further support in developing your project, please contact Anjana Bala (a.bala@lse.ac.uk) or Andrea Pia (a.e.pia@lse.ac.uk) before the deadline.

This is a fantastic opportunity for students to undertake their own primary research. With funding from the department, 2nd year students can conduct ethnographic fieldwork of their choosing during the Summer before they begin their 3rd year.

Each year 2^nd year students are invited to submit their ethnography proposals.

To participate students are required to complete the AN298 methods course.

Proposal deadline: Week 2 of Spring Term

Learn about and be inspired by the fascinating Summer Ethnography Projects students have done over the years:

2024/5 Summer Ethnography Projects

2023/4 Summer Ethnography Projects

Each year students from the department run the Anthropology Society.

The Anthropology Society seeks to promote the study of human societies in an already culturally rich environment. We organise lectures, debates, film screenings and lots of social events.

Membership fee is £1.50.

https://www.lsesu.com/communities/societies/group/anthropology/

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Student Academic Mentor programme
The Student Academic Mentor (SAM) programme is an undergraduate only programme that matches second- and third-year undergraduate mentors with undergraduate students from the same department who’d like a mentor.

Volunteer Centre
We aim to inspire and empower the LSE community to volunteer for causes they are passionate about.