This research group explores the history, societies, cultures, politics and languages of different regions of the world, with a particular emphasis on decolonial perspectives. It focuses particularly on centring the experiences, voices and ways of understanding the world of people and groups who are marginalised by the dominant power relations in a given place at a given time. It is interested in the complexities of how different political systems, societies and cultures function and promotes inter- and intra-area comparative study.
A second focus of this group is the exploration of global power relations, including relations between states, legal structures, borders, interactions between the local and the global, the changing centres and structures of knowledge production itself and its traditional Eurocentric ontology and epistemology. It purposefully seeks to break down traditional ‘silos’ between the humanities and social sciences by ‘blurring’ genres and promoting methodological innovation. The work of the group is interdisciplinary in nature and has a particular emphasis on the co-creation of knowledge and innovation
Research Group Leads
Dr Brigitte Leucht
Members
Dr Joseph Burridge
Professor Angela Crack
Dr Nikki Fairchild
Dr Ben Garner
Ms Patricia Gilbert
Dr Sukh Hamilton
Dr Naheem Jabbar
Media ready expert
Professor Wolfram Kaiser
Dr Marius Kwint
Media ready expert
Dr Melita Lazell
Dr Charlotte Morris
Dr Jacqueline Priego Hernandez
Professor Barry Smart
Professor Simon Stewart
Dr Tom Sykes
Dr Annabel Tremlett
Dr Catherine Murgatroyd
Principal Lecturer in Equallity, Diversity and Inclusion
Department for Curriculum and Quality Enhancement