Research Themes

Our interdisciplinary research themes respond to emerging issues and our world’s grand challenges.  They are driven by researchers and facilitate and encourage flexible research across our subject areas –

-       Digital humanities

-       Enlightenment and engagement

-       Imagination and society

-       Landscape and environment

-       Medical humanities

-       Global security

-       Scottish Studies Global

 

Our organisational structure allows for flexible cross-disciplinary research between researchers – and you can find our more about that below.  Our four Schools – Critical Studies; Culture and Creative Arts; Humanities: Modern Languages and Cultures – offer researchers support at a local level, whilst our subject areas and research centres offer researchers a strong balance of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.

Our subject areas:

 -       Archeology

-       Celtic and Gaelic

-       Classics

-       History

-       History of Art

-       Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute

-       Modern Languages and Cultures

-       Music

-       Philosophy

-       Theatre, Film and Television Studies

-       Theology and Religious Studies

-       Scottish and English Literature and Language

Our current, and proposed, research centres: 

-       Cultural Policy Research

-       Digital Humanities

-       Gender History

-       Literature, Theology and the Arts

-       Medical Humanities

-       Medieval and Renaissance Studies

-       Robert Burns Studies

-       Scottish Studies

-       Textile Conservation

-       Visual Narratives (Emblem Studies)