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.