Interdisciplinary research
We value and promote interdisciplinary research. By bringing different perspectives and applying different methodologies to the same problem we improve our research outcomes, reach wider audiences, and challenge our own assumptions.
Example projects
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies
The region of Greece known as the Peloponnese has played an important role in the politics and economy of the Eastern Mediterranean from prehistory to the formation of the modern Greek nation. Classical Sparta has exercised an especially significant influence, both in its own day as a powerful ancient state and in later times through the impact of its legend on medieval and modern Western thought.
The Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies is a collaboration between academics in the Department of Classics and Archaeology.
Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies
Institute for Medieval Research
We are one of the UK's leading centres for medieval research and teaching. We link Nottingham researchers with interests in medieval cultures, and foster collaboration with international scholars.
Medieval studies is an inherently interdisciplinary subject. There are medievalists in the Schools of English, Humanities, and Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, who collaborate more widely with colleagues in the Institutes of Genetics, and Science and Society, and the Schools of Biosciences and Geography.
Institute for Medieval Research
Photography as Political Practice in National Socialism
Institute for the Study of Slavery
The Institute for the Study of Slavery aims to pursue and publish research on contemporary, as well as historical, slavery in all parts of the globe and through all historical periods, and to stimulate cross-cultural and comparative work on slavery.
Institute for the Study of Slavery
Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia
COTCA aimed to produce a paradigm shift in the study of occupation, and to challenge the 'collaboration'/'resistance' dichotomy which has defined the field thus far. It adopted a transnational, intertextual and comparative approach to the study of cultural expression produced under occupation.
The project worked with the Asia Research Institute to run its seminar series, as well as engaging with academics, artists and professionals from a range of backgrounds to look at the representation, sounds and spaces of occupation.
Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia
British amateur topographical art and landscape in North West Italy, 1835-1915