Biological Anthropology (by Research) - MSc 12 months Postgraduate Program By University of Kent |Top Universities
Program Duration

12 monthsProgram duration

Tuitionfee

18,600 GBPTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

31 Jul, 2025Application Deadline

Main Subject Area

AnthropologyMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Anthropology

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Biological Anthropology by Research Master's programme gives you the opportunity to conduct independent research supported by a team of supervisors, led by one of our internationally recognised academics. Our regional expertise and breadth of thematic interests enables us to offer supervision across a wide range of topics within the fields of socio-cultural, biological, medical and visual anthropology.


Overview

Our Master's by Research courses are either one-year full-time or two years part-time. You research and write a thesis under the supervision of one or two academic staff. We have a vibrant research group whose interests stretch across the range of biological and evolutionary anthropology.


We can provide extensive and modern data-analysis facilities as well as a newly-refurbished research lab dedicated to biological and evolutionary anthropology.


We are actively recruiting new research students, and if you have an idea or topic you want to pursue, then we will help you develop your project.


Choosing a topic

Once you have decided on the nature of your project, you should contact the member of staff in the School whose expertise and interests most closely match your area of research and ask them if they will act as your supervisor.


You then work with your proposed supervisor on refining your research proposal, which provides the starting point for your subsequent research.


Examples of potential projects include:


  • Human remains analysis
  • Investigation of skeletal trauma (humans or other primate species)
  • Human parental investment strategies
  • Life-history trade-offs in humans
  • Evolution of human sexual behaviour
  • Primate foraging ecology
  • Group dynamics in fission-fusion societies

Program overview

Main Subject

Anthropology

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Biological Anthropology by Research Master's programme gives you the opportunity to conduct independent research supported by a team of supervisors, led by one of our internationally recognised academics. Our regional expertise and breadth of thematic interests enables us to offer supervision across a wide range of topics within the fields of socio-cultural, biological, medical and visual anthropology.


Overview

Our Master's by Research courses are either one-year full-time or two years part-time. You research and write a thesis under the supervision of one or two academic staff. We have a vibrant research group whose interests stretch across the range of biological and evolutionary anthropology.


We can provide extensive and modern data-analysis facilities as well as a newly-refurbished research lab dedicated to biological and evolutionary anthropology.


We are actively recruiting new research students, and if you have an idea or topic you want to pursue, then we will help you develop your project.


Choosing a topic

Once you have decided on the nature of your project, you should contact the member of staff in the School whose expertise and interests most closely match your area of research and ask them if they will act as your supervisor.


You then work with your proposed supervisor on refining your research proposal, which provides the starting point for your subsequent research.


Examples of potential projects include:


  • Human remains analysis
  • Investigation of skeletal trauma (humans or other primate species)
  • Human parental investment strategies
  • Life-history trade-offs in humans
  • Evolution of human sexual behaviour
  • Primate foraging ecology
  • Group dynamics in fission-fusion societies

Admission Requirements

6+
85+
3.3+
169+
63+
A good honours degree (2.1 or above) in Biological Anthropology or a cognate discipline.

31 Jul 2025
1 Year
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic Students

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International Students

18,600 GBP
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