A large group of people sit on a grassy hillside in a park, facing a wide open lawn under warm, low sunlight. Trees frame the scene, and a distant cityscape is visible in the background.

Research Centre

Debating Ethnography

The home of multi-disciplinary qualitative research at the University of Southampton.

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Modern languages and linguistics

Join us at workshops, research seminars, community events and symposiums over the academic year to learn, connect and share with like-minded researchers.

I am fascinated by the capacity of ethnography to trace the powers of history, politics, capitalism and globalism in the micro spaces of ordinary exchanges, encounters and relations.

Heidi Armbruster

Associate Professor

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Ethnography brings complexity and humanity into the understanding of our contemporary world. It has the unique quality of connecting theory to practice.

Marion Demossier

Professor in French and Social Anthropology

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