Research
Welcome to the research page for the School of Histories and Humanities.
The School of Histories and Humanities is a vibrant multidisciplinary research community encompassing History, Classics, and History of Art and Architecture. Our researchers work across an exceptionally broad range of periods, places and approaches, from the ancient world to the present, and across fields including archaeology, literature and languages, political and social history, gender history, environmental history, and the history of art and architecture.
The School has an outstanding record of securing major national and international research funding. Our researchers lead projects supported by the European Research Council, Research Ireland, government departments, cultural and heritage bodies, and philanthropic funders. Major current projects include VOICES, 4-OCEANS, Witnessing War, Making Peace and EMPIRE, alongside a growing portfolio of Research Ireland Pathway projects supporting the development of the next generation of research leaders. Recently completed projects, including FOODCULT, continue to generate publications, resources, collaborations and public engagement.
The School is also a leader in collaborative and digital research. The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland demonstrates the transformative potential of digital humanities, bringing together collections from institutions across Ireland and internationally to reconstruct the archive lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. Our researchers collaborate extensively with libraries, archives, museums, heritage organisations and other universities in Ireland and around the world.
Our research community extends from academic staff to postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate researchers. Research Ireland Pathway, postdoctoral and postgraduate awards, externally funded research teams, and our research centres all contribute to a lively environment in which researchers at different career stages work together. The School’s research centres provide important focal points for seminars, workshops, visiting scholars and public events.
Research in the School takes many forms. Alongside monographs, edited collections and articles in leading international journals, colleagues produce critical editions, databases, translations, exhibitions, documentaries, archaeological and digital projects, and other forms of collaborative and practice-based research. We are particularly committed to sharing our research beyond the university through partnerships with cultural institutions, media, exhibitions, festivals and other forms of public engagement.
Together, this activity reflects the breadth, ambition and public value of research across the School of Histories and Humanities.