The scholarship undertaken by our individual researchers and field teams foregrounds the importance of study of the past for today and is organised around five key themes:
Sustainable Environments takes a broad view of what an environment might be (e.g. the natural environment, the built environment, or even a linguistic environment) to emphasise how our understandings of these environments in the past can encourage sustainable practices today.
Decentred Narratives seeks to ensure better representation of social and cultural groups beyond the classes and societies that have hitherto dominated our understanding of the past.
Migrations and Mobilities considers the experiences of those who moved and settled elsewhere in the past and the long-term impacts of such activities on cultural practices.
Conflicts and Reconciliations examines the experiences of conflict and legacies of war on individual and group levels from across a range of disciplines.
Intangible Experiences brings to the fore non-material features of the lived experience to create a more enriched understanding of what it was like to live in the past.
