By Barbara van Male – A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into a room. Their shared background? They…
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From a graduate who thought it was a great idea to study cultural anthropology during an economic crisis to any anthropology student freaking out and wondering ‘…what’s next!?!’ By Joshua van Wijgerden I decided to study…
Leave a CommentIn this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a PhD candidate at the department of Social…
Leave a CommentBy Matthias Teeuwen Standing at the end of my Master’s, the topic of this year’s anthropology day particularly spoke to me: Futures. What can I expect of the future as a newly trained anthropologist? What…
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Two years later, we handed in our theses and a great part of us went to celebrate together in Rome. There I wrote something about the flies on the wall, which turned out to be my notes of an engaged anthropologist:
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Door Mariska van Zanten Naar aanleiding van de blog van Freek Colom-bijn, reflecteer ik, als “pas” afgestudeerde antropoloog in deze blog op de eerste baan direct na mijn afstuderen. In 2014 mocht ik mij gelukkig prijzen dat ik meteen werk vond bij een Nederlandse NGO. Ook omdat al in 2014 verondersteld werd dat je als antropoloog niet snel een passende, leuke of hoog betaalde baan zou kunnen vinden, greep ik deze kans met beide handen aan. Want de baan leek mij fantastisch en het salaris vond ik prima. Ik startte bij een NGO die zich richt op kennisuitwisseling tussen professionals op het gebied van mensen met communicatieve beperkingen.
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By Ina Keuper For many students the last week of their studies at the anthropology department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) has ended today, for Bachelor’s students as well as Master’s. They have worked hard on finishing their final assignment, a thesis with which they prove their proficiency in writing an academic text within the time and word count set for it. The Master’s students presented the drafts of their thesis on the Master’s Festival of last week’s Tuesday, June 14th, while the Bachelor’s did so on the Bachelor’s Festival of Thursday June 16th.
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