Dr Kika (Henrike) Neuhaus
BA, MA, HEA Fellow, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art
Livelihoods and Institutions Department
Dr Kika Neuhaus commenced in May 2024 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art at the NRI. Kika coordinates workshops and networking activities under the AHRC-funded project ‘Water justice & Indigenous youth mental health resilience: co-creating art-based solutions with Awajún Peoples and Alaska Natives’, liaising with Salud Sin Limites (Peru), McGill University (Canada), the Indigenous organisation ORPIAN-P, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC) and Sámi members of Operaatio Arktis. Building on their main area of expertise, Kika co-produces art-based tools with Indigenous youth to reflect on water justice and wellbeing. Bringing members of the project and Indigenous Youths together at one table at a workshop in Helsinki, Kika met the goal of creating space for intergenerational and intercultural dialogues. Throughout the project they supported Indigenous youth in visualising alternative water futures that safeguard the water sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and improve their mental health and wellbeing with technical assistance.
Simultaneously, Kika joined the 2 Year British Academy award exploring feminist and decolonial ‘Approaches for engaging with Indigenous knowledge processes and holders for disaster risk resilience: The case of the Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve, Malaysia’ through GIS-mapping and other artistic and digital techniques, collaborating with the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, the University Teknologi Mara, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
Kika completed a PhD in visual anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. They explored practices of care in the realm of Taekwondo in different urban settings of Buenos Aires. Henrike has ample teaching experience from Goldsmiths, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and UCL in regional ethnography of Latin America and research methods with a focus on audio-visual production and multimodal approaches. Kika is keen to establish lasting meaningful professional relationships and dialogues, as emerged from being part of the organising board of the University of San Martin (UNSAM) Science Fair and Short Film Festival 2018 that pushes the boundaries of academic engagement, youth work and artistic expression. Kika has a passion for grassroot organising and commoning. Throughout their life they were part of the founding and setting up of working groups like the International Network of Sport Anthropology, SoLaWi (CSA) Basta in Berlin, cooperatives like Quaggy Housing coop, Latin America is Moving Collective, and the Anthways Journal. Kika organises events that encourage interdisciplinary encounters in which ethical participatory methods bring researchers and interlocutors closer to formulate jointly impactful outputs for social- and environmental justice.
Kika Neuhaus’ research evolves around practices of care, play, games and sport with a focus on developing dialogic relationships and non-extractive research methods, linked to multimodal and art-based techniques and intersectional approaches.
Kika is an active member in the NRI Working Groups ‘Working Group Gender and Social Difference’ and ‘Political Ecology, Culture and Arts’. Their contributions to the working groups manifest in form of active support in proposal writing, and public facing engagements like co-organising events focussing on the learning theme: solidarity economies.
Furthermore, Kika is a research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and discusses works in progress in the fortnightly meetings of the International Network of Sport Anthropology (INSA).
Kika joined in April 2025 the ASA climate action research group taking the lead on organising the an event at the People’s Fest.
2024–2025
Approaches for engaging with Indigenous knowledge processes and holders for disaster risk resilience: The case of the Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve, Malaysia
Funded by British Academy ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024
Partners: Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China), Universiti Kebangsaan (Bangi, Malaysia), Universiti Teknologi MARA (Selangor, Malaysia)
2024–2025
Water justice & Indigenous youth mental health resilience: co-creating art-based solutions with Awajún Peoples and Alaska Natives
Funded by AHRC Indigenous Research Methods Programme
Partners: Salud Sin Limites (Peru), McGill University (Canada), ORPIAN-P (Peru), Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (USA)
2020–2021
Encounters: arts, ethnography and pedagogy
Erasmus+ strategic partnership
Partners: University of Agder (Norway), University of the Aegean (Greece), Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest (Greece), Arts Cabinet (UK), Raketa (Sweden), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Associate partner: Jennie Gubner, University of Arizona.
Kika Neuhaus was a resident, conducting internal and public-facing workshops at the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.
Second supervisor to Fred Preston (Development Studies)
- Guest lecturer in the module “Water Resources Management” (BsC. Environmental Science)
- Personal thesis tutor, MA Creative and Collaborative Enterprise, UCL
In the past three years, Kika Neuhaus delivered bespoke audio-visual induction workshops in the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) at the British Museum for researchers from across the globe.
While completing the PhD research at Goldsmiths University of London, Kika co-founded the academic PGR journal Anthways and is since available as peer reviewer. https://sites.gold.ac.uk/anthways/
Based on Kika’s regional and thematic focus they co-initiated the Latin America is Moving Collective and the International Network of Sport Anthropology that has just published their first edited volume with Vernon Press: ‘Doing Anthropology in Sporting Worlds. Knowledge Production, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age.’ https://vernonpress.com/book/2290
Neuhaus, H. (2025). ‘Temporary cyborgs: training for a-level Taekwondo competitions using digital scoring systems’. in Carter, T., Heath, S., Hildred, B., and Neuhaus, H. (eds) Doing Anthropology in a Sporting World: Knowledge, Representation, and Collaboration in the Digital Age. Vernon Press, pp. 67-89.
Neuhaus, H. and Schwamberger, C. (2025). ‘Taekwondo at the Intersection of Inequalities, Disability, and Production of Futures: Red Belt, Black Tag’. in Rodríguez-Sánchez, A. R., Piedra, J., and Jennings, G. (eds) Martial Arts in Latin Societies. 1st ed. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series), pp. 230-242/chapter 18.
Neuhaus, H. (2024) Reflexiones iniciales sobre métodos fotovoz., Gral. San Martín, Argentina, [Spanish, online] Available at: https://www.aacademica.org/3.congreso.eh.unsam/442.
Neuhaus, H. and Håkonsen, V. (2023). Taekwondo Scapes of Buenos Aires. taekwondoscapes. Available at: https://taekwondoscapes.care. (English/Spanish)
Neuhaus, H. (2022). ‘Invading comfort. Reflections on filming moving bodies.’ Arts Cabinet, Editorial Encounters. Available at: https://www.artscabinet.org/encounters/invading-comfort-reflections-on-filming-moving-bodies.
Corral, D., Kirkali, D., Marks, A., & Neuhaus, H. (2021). ‚A Conversation with Tim Ingold.’ Arts Cabinet, Editorial Encounters. Available at: https://www.artscabinet.org/encounters/the-caring-cabinet.
Schapira, R. and Neuhaus, H. (2021). ‘Of medals and recognition: Producing urban society through martial arts in Brazil and Argentina’. in Garcia Ferrari, S., Offerdal, H. E., and Kania, M. A. (eds) Why Latin America matters: a collection of essays. Edinburgh: Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies, pp. 80–99.
Herr Schmid (2014) Available at: https://vimeo.com/95738777 (German)
Still Working. (2013). Available at: https://vimeo.com/100663779. (Spanish, Eng UT)
Ausencias Presentes (Absences Present). (2013). Available at: https://vimeo.com/henrikekika/ausencias-presentes (Spanish, Eng UT)
Dr Kika Neuhaus commenced in May 2024 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Art at the NRI. Kika coordinates workshops and networking activities under the AHRC-funded project ‘Water justice & Indigenous youth mental health resilience: co-creating art-based solutions with Awajún Peoples and Alaska Natives’, liaising with Salud Sin Limites (Peru), McGill University (Canada), the Indigenous organisation ORPIAN-P, Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC) and Sámi members of Operaatio Arktis. Building on their main area of expertise, Kika co-produces art-based tools with Indigenous youth to reflect on water justice and wellbeing. Bringing members of the project and Indigenous Youths together at one table at a workshop in Helsinki, Kika met the goal of creating space for intergenerational and intercultural dialogues. Throughout the project they supported Indigenous youth in visualising alternative water futures that safeguard the water sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples and improve their mental health and wellbeing with technical assistance.
Simultaneously, Kika joined the 2 Year British Academy award exploring feminist and decolonial ‘Approaches for engaging with Indigenous knowledge processes and holders for disaster risk resilience: The case of the Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve, Malaysia’ through GIS-mapping and other artistic and digital techniques, collaborating with the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, the University Teknologi Mara, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
Kika completed a PhD in visual anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. They explored practices of care in the realm of Taekwondo in different urban settings of Buenos Aires. Henrike has ample teaching experience from Goldsmiths, the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and UCL in regional ethnography of Latin America and research methods with a focus on audio-visual production and multimodal approaches. Kika is keen to establish lasting meaningful professional relationships and dialogues, as emerged from being part of the organising board of the University of San Martin (UNSAM) Science Fair and Short Film Festival 2018 that pushes the boundaries of academic engagement, youth work and artistic expression. Kika has a passion for grassroot organising and commoning. Throughout their life they were part of the founding and setting up of working groups like the International Network of Sport Anthropology, SoLaWi (CSA) Basta in Berlin, cooperatives like Quaggy Housing coop, Latin America is Moving Collective, and the Anthways Journal. Kika organises events that encourage interdisciplinary encounters in which ethical participatory methods bring researchers and interlocutors closer to formulate jointly impactful outputs for social- and environmental justice.
Kika Neuhaus’ research evolves around practices of care, play, games and sport with a focus on developing dialogic relationships and non-extractive research methods, linked to multimodal and art-based techniques and intersectional approaches.
Kika is an active member in the NRI Working Groups ‘Working Group Gender and Social Difference’ and ‘Political Ecology, Culture and Arts’. Their contributions to the working groups manifest in form of active support in proposal writing, and public facing engagements like co-organising events focussing on the learning theme: solidarity economies.
Furthermore, Kika is a research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and discusses works in progress in the fortnightly meetings of the International Network of Sport Anthropology (INSA).
Kika joined in April 2025 the ASA climate action research group taking the lead on organising the an event at the People’s Fest.
2024–2025
Approaches for engaging with Indigenous knowledge processes and holders for disaster risk resilience: The case of the Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve, Malaysia
Funded by British Academy ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024
Partners: Lingnan University (Hong Kong, China), Universiti Kebangsaan (Bangi, Malaysia), Universiti Teknologi MARA (Selangor, Malaysia)
2024–2025
Water justice & Indigenous youth mental health resilience: co-creating art-based solutions with Awajún Peoples and Alaska Natives
Funded by AHRC Indigenous Research Methods Programme
Partners: Salud Sin Limites (Peru), McGill University (Canada), ORPIAN-P (Peru), Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (USA)
2020–2021
Encounters: arts, ethnography and pedagogy
Erasmus+ strategic partnership
Partners: University of Agder (Norway), University of the Aegean (Greece), Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest (Greece), Arts Cabinet (UK), Raketa (Sweden), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Associate partner: Jennie Gubner, University of Arizona.
Kika Neuhaus was a resident, conducting internal and public-facing workshops at the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.
Second supervisor to Fred Preston (Development Studies)
- Guest lecturer in the module “Water Resources Management” (BsC. Environmental Science)
- Personal thesis tutor, MA Creative and Collaborative Enterprise, UCL
In the past three years, Kika Neuhaus delivered bespoke audio-visual induction workshops in the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) at the British Museum for researchers from across the globe.
While completing the PhD research at Goldsmiths University of London, Kika co-founded the academic PGR journal Anthways and is since available as peer reviewer. https://sites.gold.ac.uk/anthways/
Based on Kika’s regional and thematic focus they co-initiated the Latin America is Moving Collective and the International Network of Sport Anthropology that has just published their first edited volume with Vernon Press: ‘Doing Anthropology in Sporting Worlds. Knowledge Production, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age.’ https://vernonpress.com/book/2290
Neuhaus, H. (2025). ‘Temporary cyborgs: training for a-level Taekwondo competitions using digital scoring systems’. in Carter, T., Heath, S., Hildred, B., and Neuhaus, H. (eds) Doing Anthropology in a Sporting World: Knowledge, Representation, and Collaboration in the Digital Age. Vernon Press, pp. 67-89.
Neuhaus, H. and Schwamberger, C. (2025). ‘Taekwondo at the Intersection of Inequalities, Disability, and Production of Futures: Red Belt, Black Tag’. in Rodríguez-Sánchez, A. R., Piedra, J., and Jennings, G. (eds) Martial Arts in Latin Societies. 1st ed. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series), pp. 230-242/chapter 18.
Neuhaus, H. (2024) Reflexiones iniciales sobre métodos fotovoz., Gral. San Martín, Argentina, [Spanish, online] Available at: https://www.aacademica.org/3.congreso.eh.unsam/442.
Neuhaus, H. and Håkonsen, V. (2023). Taekwondo Scapes of Buenos Aires. taekwondoscapes. Available at: https://taekwondoscapes.care. (English/Spanish)
Neuhaus, H. (2022). ‘Invading comfort. Reflections on filming moving bodies.’ Arts Cabinet, Editorial Encounters. Available at: https://www.artscabinet.org/encounters/invading-comfort-reflections-on-filming-moving-bodies.
Corral, D., Kirkali, D., Marks, A., & Neuhaus, H. (2021). ‚A Conversation with Tim Ingold.’ Arts Cabinet, Editorial Encounters. Available at: https://www.artscabinet.org/encounters/the-caring-cabinet.
Schapira, R. and Neuhaus, H. (2021). ‘Of medals and recognition: Producing urban society through martial arts in Brazil and Argentina’. in Garcia Ferrari, S., Offerdal, H. E., and Kania, M. A. (eds) Why Latin America matters: a collection of essays. Edinburgh: Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies, pp. 80–99.
Herr Schmid (2014) Available at: https://vimeo.com/95738777 (German)
Still Working. (2013). Available at: https://vimeo.com/100663779. (Spanish, Eng UT)
Ausencias Presentes (Absences Present). (2013). Available at: https://vimeo.com/henrikekika/ausencias-presentes (Spanish, Eng UT)