Research Centre for the Humanities (REACH)
Promoting and celebrating research in the humanities
The Research Centre for the Humanities (REACH) allows colleagues working broadly within humanities to come together to develop research questions, provide a basis for grant applications across a range of funders and allow greater collaboration across subject areas.
We aim to make innovative, interdisciplinary connections across the College and University as well as enabling smaller groups to come together to plan and develop research goals. Our work is applied and sensitive to the needs of the wider community, committed to providing high-quality research as a way of solving real-world problems.
We promote and celebrate research in humanities, which is broadly defined as the study of human culture(s) using methods which may be theoretical, critical, empirical or combinations of all of these. Rather than be tied down to self-limiting definitions, we are outward-facing and welcoming in our collaborations with a range of partners who might benefit from research areas and methodologies more traditionally used by humanities scholars.
To that end, we position our work as ‘public humanities’, undertaking research that has a direct and meaningful influence on people’s lives.
Centre director: Dr Abigail Boucher
Our world is in the throes of an unprecedented digital revolution with a profound and ongoing impact on culture, economics, politics and social organisation. The Digital Humanities Research Group unites academic and professional staff, postgraduate students, researchers and teachers across Aston University who are interested in new and emerging technologies and their impact on the human condition.
We engage with these and other questions from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives, including business, computer science, English, history, law, linguistics, politics and translation studies. For more information, please contact the current group leader.