Our research cluster themes are student-led to enable cross-disciplinary dialogue and knowledge exchange beyond immediate research fields.
The Rethinking Eurocentrism research cluster provides knowledge-sharing, learning, and solidarity for those whose research, interests or identities reflect the world beyond Europe. Rethinking Eurocentrism offers participants across various disciplines a space to centre ways of thinking, being, and doing from the Global South and Indigenous Nations.
Created by our students, this interdisciplinary cluster brings together scholars across the arts and humanities to analyse how events are remembered and memorialised.
The research cluster seeks to understand the impact of memory on culture, society and politics through the exploration of topics including, but not limited to:
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This cluster explore all forms of creativity in academic research, working across multiple disciplines. It is particularly interested in examining the following questions:
The cluster believes that practice-based and creative research methodologies, as fairly new branches in academia, still need to unleash their potential and shape the research landscape. For this reason, the Creativity in Research cluster encourages the dialogue between practice-based projects and more traditional research: the objective is to provide people with tools to look at problems and questions from more nuanced angles and perspectives.
The cluster looks for, discusses, and promotes approaches and methodologies that can be borrowed from creative practices and the arts, and be applied to other fields and forms of research.
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How can the arts & humanities contribute to the life sciences, medical practice, and our understanding of health, both in theory and in practice?
The Health Humanities Cluster brings together researchers from across both the sciences and the arts and humanities to discuss, collaborate on, and investigate a wide range of questions on the theme of health, including:
Email: Health.SWWDTP@gmail.com
Follow on Twitter: @HealthClusterSW
The cluster is designed to bring together students who are working on projects that relate to any aspect of gender, sex and sexuality, or who are looking for a supportive LGBTQIA+ research network. We come from a range of disciplinary and methodological backgrounds and are always welcoming new members.
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