Research clusters

Body Politics

Fitting into the university's cross-disciplinary themes Health and Wellbeing and Democratic Citizenship, research being undertaken by the Body Politics cluster offers a wide range of approaches towards and understandings of literal and metaphorical bodies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Read more: Body Politics

Culture, Community and Heritage

Corresponding to the university's cross-disciplinary themes Democratic Citizenship and Security and Risk, research being undertaken by the Culture, Community and Heritage cluster brings together research from the early modern period to the contemporary, focusing upon discourses of community formation and deformation. Read more: Culture, Community and Heritage

Time, Space, Environment

Relating to the university's cross-disciplinary themes Sustainability and the Environment and Democratic Citizenship, research being undertaken by the Space, Time, Environment cluster covers a wide range of spatiotemporal areas across literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present day. Read more: Time, Space, Environment