CRASSH is 25 – Celebrate with us!
Founded in 2001, CRASSH promotes innovative, interdisciplinary research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences and supports connections between academic research and policy, cultural...
View ArticleEvent summary: Religious Entanglements in Modern South Asia
Dr Soumen Mukherjee (Presidency University, Kolkata & Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at CRASSH), reflects on the symposium ‘Religious Entanglements in Modern South Asia‘ held on 9...
View ArticleAI protections must be more than a footnote in the UK Government’s ‘Plan to...
The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy‘s Policy and Impact Manager Tom Lacy writes on the wide-ranging harms of new tech that should be in scope of the Government’s consultation on workplace...
View ArticleHistory from the edge: teaching global history in a Ugandan refugee settlement
Elvira Tamus (Teaching Fellow with the Global History Lab) reflects on the experience of teaching global history in a Ugandan refugee settlement. This essay is reposted here with kind permission from...
View ArticleEvent report I Dear Community: Water with our head, hands and heart
The workshop, Dear Community, brought together water attentive voices to encounter, explore what it means to care for, and think about engaging our whole selves – our heads, hands, and hearts – in our...
View ArticleFAQ’s: Visiting Fellowships
CRASSH offers a range of Fellowships to support scholars at various stages of their careers. In this blog post, our Fellowships Coordinator answers some of the most frequently asked questions about...
View ArticleDiscovering Yvonne Salmon’s exhibition ‘For Those Who Don’t Want to Be Found’
Yvonne Salmon, Selected Artworks Paint / Sand / Gold / Video / Photography / Digital 11 November – 20 December 2024 Throughout the exhibition, artist and academic Yvonne Salmon will add notes, writings...
View ArticleLEAP Lab Launch I Event report
LEAP Lab: Living Experiments in Arts-Science Practice to Re-imagine Sustainability, one of CRASSH’s inaugural research labs introduces their vision and work. “What IS this?” The ‘is’ resonated...
View ArticleThe magic behind improving mental health for SHAPE Early Career Researchers
Catherine Dawson from Action Research on Research Culture writes about an event organised by the ERC Assembly which was held at CRASSH in October 2024. Firstly, what is the ECR assembly? For those of...
View ArticleMeet the Research Lab | Q&A with Catalysts for Decolonisation
Catalysts for Decolonisation: The Significance of (Anti)Colonialism in 20th Century History, one of CRASSH’s inaugural research labs introduces their vision and work. Q. What are the aims of your...
View ArticleWarawoot Chuangchai | My research journey in accessible design: reflections...
Warawoot Chuangchai is a postdoctoral researcher and interior architect from Thailand. He was a junior visiting academic at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and is currently a Visiting Fellow...
View ArticleMeet the network | Q&A with Frontiers of Faith: Religion in the China-Africa...
An introductory Q&A with the Frontiers of Faith: Religion in the China-Africa Space network Q: How did Frontiers of Faith come about? Mainly by looking for an alliteration! But more seriously, we...
View ArticleRural Disease Knowledge: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives | Five...
Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a Wellcome Trust funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of St Andrews. He was a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH (gloknos) in 2022. Christos Lynteris is...
View ArticleCristina Blanco Sío-López receives the 2024 ‘María Moliner’ National Research...
Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, receives the 2024 ‘María Moliner’ National Research Award in the Humanities from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation The National...
View ArticleMeet the Research Lab | Q&A with LEAP Lab
LEAP Lab: Living Experiments in Arts-Science Practice to Re-imagine Sustainability, one of CRASSH’s inaugural research labs introduces their vision and work. Q. What are the aims of your Research Lab?...
View Article‘Is data failing us?’ Nine Dots Prize offers $100,000 and a book deal for the...
The fifth cycle of the Nine Dots Prize launches with a new question and additions to the Board including Dr Linda Yueh CBE, Dr Thomas Halliday and its first-ever winner, Dr James Williams. Nine Dots...
View ArticleWHO’S HERE? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2024
WHO’S HERE? A brief introduction to fellows joining CRASSH this Michaelmas Term. Feel free to contact our fellows and join our weekly Research Practice Seminars. Visit our Fellowships Programme page to...
View ArticleEvent highlights in Michaelmas Term
This Term sees the start of an exciting series of events and initiatives at CRASSH. Our events are free to attend and open to everyone unless otherwise stated. Highlights of the Michaelmas term events...
View ArticleA writing week at CRASSH
In July 2024 a group of Cambridge academics, from a broad range of career levels and disciplines, arrived at CRASSH armed with laptops, pens and paper to share a week focused on their academic writing....
View ArticleMeet our Research Networks for 2024 – 2025
This year CRASSH is supporting ten networks; four are returning groups and six are new networks joining us. Find out more about network themes and convenors, and see their event programmes. All network...
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