Centres and Institutes
Disciplines within the College of Humanities are involved in a number of research projects, many of which are interdisciplinary and externally funded.
Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas
The Centre aims to promote the research of the department's archaeologists and their collaborators in all aspects of the Archaeology of the Americas. It also acts to engage postgraduate research students in American topics and research projects.
Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology
The HumAnE Bioarchaeology Centre’s mission is to explore human-animal-environment interactions though time, using techniques from across the Arts-Science spectrum.
The Centre for Medieval Studies was established in order to encourage regular academic contact between medievalists in the University and elsewhere, to promote interdisciplinary approaches to the medieval period and to act as a forum for postgraduate teaching and research.
The Exeter South Asia Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and postgraduate students across the College whose work relates wholly or in part to the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.
Centre for Translating Cultures
The Centre provides a context to draw together work on ‘Translating Cultures’ within the University. We interpret translating cultures broadly and explore migrations, border-crossing, exile, diaspora, adaptation, intermediality and multimedia from the 1100s to the present day.
Visual Culture group
This group has research strengths across art history, visual culture and film.
Affiliated research centres
Centre for Hellenistic and Romano-Greek Culture and Society
Supported by a £1.25 million Leverhulme grant, the Centre is rapidly becoming internationally recognised for the study of the history and culture of the post-classical Greek world.
Centre for Connectivity in the Roman World
The Centre aims to examine in what ways connectivity contributed to the shaping of distinctive cultures, economies and societies across the breadth of the Roman world (and its immediate neighbours).
Centre for Knowledge in Culture and Antiquity and Beyond
This Centre brings together research by colleagues in the discipline of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter in specialised areas from across the Classical world.
Centre for Classical Reception
The Exeter Centre for Classical Reception was established in the summer of 2019 to acknowledge and build on the extraordinary expertise in the field of classical reception across various Humanities disciplines at Exeter.
Centre for Contemporary Performance Practices
The Centre is committed to making connections between academia and the world beyond.
Centre for Performance Histories and Cultures
The Centre brings together the Department’s dynamic culture of research in a variety of social and historical contexts.
Colloquium for Interdisciplinary Research and Community-Led Engagement
Recent activity has included staff collaboration with the Institute for Health Research on healing, supported by the BIAL foundation, and research on rurality and everyday participation, supported by a AHRC Connected Communities (Creative Industries) large grant.
The Exeter South Asia Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and postgraduate students across the College whose work relates wholly or in part to the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.
Affiliated research centres
Centre for Intermedia and Creative Technology
The Centre for Intermedia and Creative Technology (CICT) promotes advanced transdisciplinary research in digital technology and creative media through collaborations between artists, programmers, performers, designers and scientists from a range of disciplines.
Centre for Literature and Archives
The Centre for Literature and Archives at the University of Exeter holds many resources and manuscripts in the Special Collections archive, and actively encourages students to engage with this material.
Led by world experts in their field, the Centre for Victorian Studies brings together researchers from a number of different departments to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Centre for Interdisciplinary Film Research (CIFR)
Embraces an exciting range of international research across the broad field of Film Studies. A hub for film studies research, teaching and activities at the University of Exeter.
The Exeter South Asia Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and postgraduate students across the College whose work relates wholly or in part to the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.
Affiliated research centres
- Centre for Early Modern Studies
- Global China Research Centre
- Centre for Medieval Studies
- Centre for Translating Cultures
Research groups
Victorian Studies
Centre for Early Modern Studies
Focuses intellectual exchanges and interdisciplinary activity. Engaged in research on all aspects of the period between c1500 and 1800, expertise spreads from Britain and Europe to the Middle East and North America.
Centre for Imperial and Global History
Brings together the strong research expertise of the University's eminent imperial historians. It comprises of one of the largest groups of imperial and global historians currently working in the UK.
Centre for Maritime Historical Studies
Utilises a wide range of expertise in maritime historical studies and seeks to promote research into various aspects of the British maritime past from the earliest times to the present day.
Centre for Histories of Violence and Conflict
Provides a forum for staff and postgraduates in a number of disciplines linked by their shared interest in the impact of war, civil conflict, and political violence on societies and communities
Advancing methods and areas of research within the history of medicine, and linking with medical and health care professionals in the region.
The Centre provides the focal point for interdisciplinary scholarship and learning in a wide variety of subjects relating to the Middle Ages.
Seeks to promote a greater knowledge of historical and contemporary Cornwall. A partnership between the University and Cornwall Council, it combines academic research and teaching with community engagement.
The Exeter South Asia Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and postgraduate students across the College whose work relates wholly or in part to the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.
Centre for Translating Cultures
The Centre provides a context to draw together work on ‘Translating Cultures’ within the University. We interpret translating cultures broadly and explore migrations, border-crossing, exile, diaspora, adaptation, intermediality and multimedia from the 1100s to the present day.
The rapid expansion of China and its appetite for internationalisation needs to be understood through the perspective of cultural diversification and global interaction. The centre provides an innovative perspective of seeing China not only as a geographic region, but importantly as a non-European epistemology.
Exeter Centre for Latin American Studies
The Centre aims to consolidate and enhance the visibility of Latin American studies (broadly conceived) as a growing field of study at the University of Exeter, and provide a platform to draw together the existing, but fragmented, expertise in Latin America in various departments of the University of Exeter.
Affiliated research centres
Our research in biblical studies covers topics ranging from historical and archaeological studies to contemporary ethical and contextual interpretation, holding regular seminars and welcoming visiting research fellows.
The Exeter Centre for Ethics and Practical Theology (EXCEPT)'s goal is to foster and further theological and ethical research in contextual, practical and ministerial concerns. We are committed to developing theological and interdisciplinary research projects at all levels.
Network for Religion in Public Life
Founded in 2007, The Network for Religion in Public Life (NRPL) is an interdisciplinary research partnership. It links students and staff at the University of Exeter and partner institutions with shared interests in how religion interacts with public life.
Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities
The Centre for Environmental Arts and Humanities brings together colleagues from across disciplines who are united by a common concern and challenge: the work of the arts and humanities in current debates around environment and sustainability, cultures and communities, narrative and representation.
Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health
Together, members of the Centre explore how experiences of health, illness and medical knowledge are shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, and investigate how evidence from the humanities and social sciences can be used to help to develop and evaluate innovative and effective public health initiatives.