Decisions about planning and budget are taken by a Steering Group, composed of the following members:

• Karen Fog Olwig, Professor, Dep. of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (chairman)
• Ton Otto, Professor, Dep. of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus 
• Nils Ole Bubandt, Associate Professor, Dep. of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus
• Andreas Roepstorff, Associate Professor, Dep. of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus
• Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, Associate Professor, Dep. of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
• Thomas Brandt Fibiger, PhD student, Dep. of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus
• Lotte Buch, PhD student, Dep. of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

The Anthropology Departments
PhD students are enrolled at the two existing university anthropology departments: Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University and the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus. The departments continue to have the ultimate authority for PhD education and granting of degrees. The two departments are about the same size: ca. 18 academic staff, 500 BA/Masters students, and 10-20 PhD students. Both have a strong fieldwork tradition and a lively interaction between applied, strategic, and basic research. Both are involved in DANIDA financed Enhancement of Research Capacity projects entailing collaboration (including PhD education) with universities in Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, and Vietnam.

Priority research areas include: social identities; cultural differentiation and conflict; local and global development; health and medical practice; environment and society. 

Other important themes are: knowledge and practice; children, youth and education; the post-socialist world; technology, society and subjectivity; politics, institutions and culture.