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Professor Anke Schwittay is Professor of Anthropology & Global Development at the University of Sussex's School of Global Studies, where she serves as Associate Dean for Global and Civic Engagement in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and previously taught at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Auckland.
Her research centers on emerging actors in global development, with current focus on student housing cooperatives as responses to housing crises, creative education for global challenges, and representations in development. She founded the MA Media Practice for Social Change and Development program and teaches modules on Urban Futures and Activism for Social Change.
Her publications reveal strong thematic evolution toward prefigurative politics and alternative futures, particularly through housing cooperatives and creative pedagogies. The 2021 book Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures synthesizes her work on critical hope and future-building in education, while recent articles (2023-2024) deepen analysis of cooperative models and pedagogical innovation.
She supervises PhD research on housing cooperatives, humanitarian design, financial inclusion, and creative development practices, currently guiding two doctoral candidates while having completed supervision for seven students on topics ranging from micro-philanthropy to women in transport sectors.
Her significant grant activity includes the 2023-2026 Leverhulme Trust project "Decolonising the geopolitical 'map of learning': locating the university in a global past and present for reparative higher education futures." She co-founded the Silicon Valley-based RiOS Institute and has consulted for the World Bank Institute and UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development.
