As part of the ongoing development of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS), the Faculty was funding and supporting four Research Programmes to bring together researchers across IHSS and beyond in 2022 - 24. These programmes developed research communities through symposia, seminars, funding opportunities, grant writing and more.
The two Working Groups were interdisciplinary groups that brought unique humanities and social sciences expertise on a particular subject. The Working group on COVID-19 worked from June 2020 to February 2021, and the Climate Emergency group was active from January 2022 to December 2023.
Created the platform for scholars and activists working with plants
Seeked to establish an interdisciplinary conversation on work and its futures
Seeked to take stock of local knowledge around the world
Leverhulme Trust funded programme for doctoral scholars (QMUL-LTDS)
Focused on examining the response to COVID-19 through the lens of trust
Inspected the climate emergency from a distinctively HSS perspective
The 21st-century global economy through different disciplinary perspectives
Actors, Institutions, Scales and Values of Democracy
Insights into the different ways the public can be imagined and understood