Welcome to the Humanities Research Institute

Our aim is to foster humanities research at The University of Newcastle through our sponsored research programmes and by fostering links and alliances within and beyond the university. Humanities research has a proud record both of innovation and of cherishing tradition, and has an important role to play in intellectual life at the university and more widely. Our particular mission is to encourage high-quality adventurous work in the humanities through the formation of teams of humanities researchers in areas of natural advantage where there are clusterings of interests, and to promote the research careers of individual University of Newcastle humanities researchers. We also seek out and promote connections between research in the humanities disciplines at Newcastle and work elsewhere, with the idea of forming productive groups in closely focused areas across institutions, and groups that bring together researchers across discipline boundaries to tackle larger and more intractable problems.