International Women’s Day – profiles
To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of our leading female academics what inspires them and what advice they would give to women and young girls looking to pursue a career in academia…
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Music Planet – exploring research through music
Music Planet explores the broadest concepts of Environment and Music. The series will draw on academic research across all disciplines from arts to social science and science to present new concepts that have an impact…
Evidence of ‘super henge’ surrounding Stonehenge
Scientists have unveiled a remarkable new picture of Stonehenge and its surrounding areas, including the remains of an even bigger ‘super henge’ nearby. The mammoth project, led by Prof. Vince Gaffney at the University…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The University will mark the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science this week with an inaugural lecture by renowned British geneticist Dame Professor Linda Partridge.
Congratulations! 4 Publications Shortlisted for the BAFTSS Publications Awards
The British Association of Film and Television Studies Scholars (BAFTSS) has unveiled the nominees for its Outstanding Achievement Awards 2017. The Department of Film Studies is widely represented with four of the…
East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Neighbourhood Sorting
The East Sides of cities such as London, Vancouver, New York and Paris have historically been the poorest. Some, but not all, have gentrified more recently, and this gentrification has been at the centre of media…
TheoArtistry: The power of the arts to communicate the divine
TheoArtistry is a new dimension of the work of ITIA, the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, based in the School of Divinity. Directed by Dr George Corbett, TheoArtistry explores how ITIA’s research at…
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS: Museums and Community: Concepts, Experiences and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
Museums can provide vital services to their communities, providing under-represented people with a chance to stake a place in history, as well as contributing to sustainability, community empowerment and links between…
The Functions of Film in the British Empire
In 1941, William Sellers, the head of the recently formed Colonial Film Unit (CFU), published an article about African audiences, entitled ‘Films for Primitive Peoples’, in which he proposed a model for mobile film…
Light Box – bringing together culture and science
Light Box celebrates light in all its aspects – solar, sacred, scientific, nourishing, and poetic. Produced as a result of meetings between Professor Crawford and McBeath and contemporary physicists whose work centres…