CROSS-COLLEGE RESEARCH COLLABORATION
Arts Lab seek to encourage creativity and to stimulate collaborative research.
We are developing an integrated approach to research collaboration between the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, engineering, medical, veterinary, and life sciences.
Please contact John Reuben Davies john.r.davies@glasgow.ac.uk, Associate Director of Arts Lab for help with any research activity that moves beyond the College of Arts & Humanities.
Approaches to Research Collaboration
Arts Lab's approach to facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration is mainly from a curiosity-led perspective. We are also happy to help facilitate strategic and challenge-led collaborations.
Integrated collaboration sees more than one discipline applying their own methods to the same problem. The intellectual working space is open. We share our research tools. Everyone thinks together and asks questions they would not otherwise have thought of.
Research Connections Events
Our Research Connections events are the first steps of bringing different disciplines together. They are exploratory conversations to seek common ground or new research areas.
Modern Languages & Cultures – Psychology & Neuroscience
This event involved a series of conversations between researchers in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience (College of MVLS). These have led to new projects on the connection between the gut and the mind, surrealism and perception. These has made connections between identity, culture, technology, and the natural environment.
Arts & Humanities – Physics & Astronomy
Researchers from the College of Arts & Humanities have been interacting with colleagues from the School of Physics & Astronomy. They have built on successful recent collaborations in the fields of gravitational waves and spatial perception for deaf blind people. They are also exploring collaborations between epistemologists in Philosophy and the Extreme Light Group.
Arts & Humanities – Virus Research and Parasitology
The Research Connections Events have sparked several projects between the Games and Gaming Lab and researchers in Parasitology, as well as between our Philosophers, our External Engagement team, and the Centre for Virus Research.
Arts & Humanities – Science and Engineering
Rocket science and fashion design have come together in an innovative project focusing on smart connected fabric.
Support for Researchers
We support researchers in at least three ways:
- Research connections: Designing and hosting events and exploratory conversations to seek common ground between researchers in different disciplines.
- Curated conversations: Setting up and guiding discussions in the direction of collaborative research pathways towards future projects.
- Facilitated conversations and other activities: Developing teams and research questions. These more established pathways focus on specific projects.
Knowledge and Creativity - a joint initiative
A Joint Initiative between the College of Arts & Humanities and the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS).
At its best, research is a creative process, whether in the Arts or the Sciences. We are now in the second year of an extra-curricular forum for students from disciplines within our two colleges to explore the fundamental nature of research.
A cohort of over a hundred Arts & Humanities and MVLS students discuss the nature of creativity in research. They consider the fundamental nature of knowledge and issues that will inform their understanding of the dynamic processes that underpin successful research careers.
Each summer, twelve summer scholarships are awarded to carry out interdisciplinary projects.