Careers

Career Opportunities

Students who graduate with a B.A. Degree in anthropology from The University of Adelaide have gone on to a wide variety of professions. In our society, where adaptability and flexibility are increasingly necessary to succeed in the workplace, anthropology can provide a set of important skills for a variety of jobs. A number of our students go on to postgraduate studies, but many go on to quite different careers in which they find their anthropological knowledge and skills to be great assets. Some of these careers include:

1. Museums
2. Native Title and Land Claims negotiations
3. Heritage Consultancies (conducting research on histories and cultures of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities
4. Federal and State Government Departments: Education, Employment, Youth Affairs, Health, Immigration, Foreign Affairs
5. Private Consultancies (ie. research for natural resource companies on the social impact of large scale projects, developing better work environments, cultural sensitivity training)
6. Foreign Aid Programmes, International Development Programmes
7. Media (editing, reporting, documentary film-making)
8. Politics (policy research and planning)
9. Law (law reform, Native Title)
10. Medical/Health sector (research focusing on health issues for specific cultural groups, the relationship between physical/mental health and the socio-cultural environment)
11. Work Area Design and Development