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Humanities Research

In this page we will showcase existing work to encourage and support recognition of the potential contribution of the Humanities.

The MIRRA Project: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access

  • Reforming management of social records to help people brought up in care to understand their childhood experiences.
  • Elizabeth Shepherd, Department of Information Studies, UCL
  • SDG 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies:
  • Target 16.10 Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms
  • More information about this project

Reimagining Museums for Climate Action

  • Museums are often seen as static and backwards-looking, more concerned with the past than with the present and the future. While this impression is slowly changing, museums are not the most obvious subject to focus on when thinking about climate action.
  • Rodney Harrison, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
  • More information about the project.

Landscape Futures and the Challenge of Change

  • Landscape Decisions aims to help us make the best decisions possible for the benefit of society, individual well-being, the economy and the environment.
  • Rodney Harrison, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
  • More information about this project

Memorialising Ancestral Landscapes through Inter-Cultural Heritage Making in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon

  • The British Academy awarded funding, under its Sustainable Development Programme, to pursue research designed to help tackle the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (Archeology Department, UCL)
  • More information about this project

Visualising pain

  • What is persistent pain?  How do we communicate pain, not only in words but in visual images and gesture? How do we respond to the pain of another, and can we do it better? Can explaining how pain works help us handle it?
  • Dr Deborah Padfield - The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
  • More information about this project