Understanding cultures, connecting worlds. Our research explores how languages, texts, ideas, and cultural practices shape societies across time and place.
Find out more about this research partnership into culinary recipes and food culture.
Find out more about work on the future-oriented consequences of past-oriented study.
Our University-wide Research Centres and Institutes, together with our School Research and Interest Groups, play a vital role in fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. They bring together expertise from across disciplines, creating opportunities for networking, collaborative research, funding development, external engagement, and impactful knowledge exchange.
We welcome applications for postgraduate study in the School’s language and research focus area, especially where there are potential links to relevant Durham Research Institutes and Centres or to our research groups
Discover the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' new Transformative Humanities framework which brings together distinctive approaches to humanities research and education within the academy and across a wide range of partners and communities.
A recent Durham PhD has quickly developed into a scholarly publication. Vladimir Liparteliani’s research on Russian and Western influence in Georgia has now appeared as a new Routledge monograph, extending his doctoral work into a study of soft power, nation-building and Georgian national identity.
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