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Soldiers Patrolling in Afghanistan

Have we misunderstood post-traumatic stress disorder?

19 Aug 2016

In understanding war-related post-traumatic stress disorder, a person’s cultural and professional context is just as important as how they cope with...

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When slacker is safer

17 Mar 2014

Professor Stefan Scholtes warns that exceeding the ‘tipping point’ can have serious consequences

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Surgeons in the field hospital in Camp Bastion

Welcome to Bastion: warzone ethnography with the combat surgeons

27 Jun 2012

A Cambridge academic was given unprecedented access to the military hospital at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, to study the teamwork of the combat...

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The making of a Boat Race crew

01 Sep 2007

Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high...

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