Anthropology and Archaeology

Study and research skills

Research methods and techniques

Browse  Library Search  to find materials, for example indigenous methods or archaeological techniques

Sage Research Methods

You can:

1. Browse entries by Discipline (e.g. Anthropology which also encompasses Archaeology).
2. Under Research Tools, consult the Methods Map (e.g. Survey).
3. Under Research Tools, use the Project Planner to design and plan a research project.

Methods include: qualitative and quantitative methods; fieldwork; participation observation; visual analysis of photographs and video; interviews; spatial databases for archaeology. 

Study Skills 

The Study Skills team can support you in many ways. From improving your time management skills to honing your expertise in critical writing, the team is there to help you develop your confidence, skills and abilities in reading scholarly resources, thinking critically, finding your 'academic voice' and can even help with your statistics skills development.

The library holds many resources to help you improve your academic skills at all levels of study and research. Below are some examples useful for anthropology and archaeology:

Academic Study Skills

Anthropology and archaeology study skills

The Anthropology and Archaeology department provides advice on essay writing and other forms of assessment in unit content on Blackboard, the university's online learning environment.

The London School of Economics has a guide to the foundations of anthropological writing for students.  This includes an example of an anthropology Essay Mindmap.

You can create a mindmap to organise and structure your ideas and arguments in a visual way. This can be done on paper or with mind mapping software.