School research
Research in Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences traverses a number of fields, styles and areas. Our researchers look to push knowledge in their respective fields, enhancing our reputation for global excellence.
Our school contains a vast network of researchers with skills and talents spanning the full creative spectrum, thus we encourage collaboration – across traditional and less-explored fields – while utilising the full scope of our ground-breaking facilities. As a result, our research shapes social agendas locally and across the globe.
The School has a particularly strong reputation for bringing together conventional humanities scholarship with the possibilities enabled by digital technology, while our social science researchers work closely with communities, governments, and other partners.
Shining a light on our dark history with the Massacres Map
Our research encompasses a spectrum of outputs, from sole-authored monographs presenting an in-depth study drawn together over many years, to public-facing reports on issue of crucial social importance, to journal articles of the highest quality targeting peers around the world.
Research in the School is organised around a number of themes that are formed and reformed every few years based on existing staff interests, current funded and unfunded projects, and in response to changes in our research fields, as well as 'out there' in the world. Some of these themes support our research centres and networks, while others are ways to develop momentum among smaller groups around a set of research problems and questions.
Institutes, centres and networks
Learn more about our research in Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences
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