Projects
Current projects
2023/24 projects

Understanding Offence
Exploring 'Offence' as a phenomenon and the challenges for society in attempting to regulate offensive speech and behaviour.(Major Project)

Abusing Antiquity
Investigating the colonisation of the classical past by a spectrum of political forces, with a particular focus on neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups in Europe and the UK.(Major Project)

Justice and Artificial Intelligence
An interdisciplinary examination of potential and actual sources of injustice within surveillance-cum-recognition and automated decision-making technologies and the DNNs which are their foundation.(Major Project)

In Absence of Others
An interdisciplinary project examining managers' experiences when working alone.(Small Project)

ALTS: AI-enabled Legal Technologies and their Consequences on Society
The project seeks to enable conversations about delivering human-centred techniques and tools to help stakeholders explore the horizons of possibilities and to define an envelope of acceptability for AI-based Software Responsibility focusing on legal aspects. (Research Development Project)

What is the Role of the Archive in Decolonising the University?
The project seeks to further this work by convening interdisciplinary conversations around university archives & how they may serve a pedagogical function in decolonising different disciplines.(Research Development Project)

Examining the interconnections between physical health, mental health and physical activity with neurodivergent youth
The aim of this project is to develop tailored supports, policy recommendations and societal change to enable neurodivergent people to flourish to their full potential.(Research Development Project)

Stealing Secrets? Intelligence theory and the open society
This project provides fresh understandings of how to think of intelligence in twenty-first century international relations.(Research Development Project)

Archaeology of the Dispossessed
This project grapples with and devises new ways to address if displaced communities, who are physically unable to access their ancestral lands, can renew a sense of ownership over their tangible cultural heritage and assert their agency over its use?(Research Development Project)
Projects
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Justice and Artificial Intelligence
Dr Noura Al-Moubayed – Department of Computer Science
Professor William Lucy – Durham Law School

Abusing Antiquity?
Dr Helen Roche – Department of History
Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou – Department of Anthropology

Understanding Offence: delimiting the (un)sayable
Professor Helen Fenwick – Durham Law School
Professor Patrick Zuk – School of Modern Languages and Cultures

In Absence of Others: aloneness and identity at work
Dr Karolina Nieberle – Psychology
Dr Janey Zheng – Marketing and Management
Future projects
2024/25 projects

Syntactical structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture
From language and memory, to music and narrative – humans display the ability to create and understand complicated sequences. This project proposes that this syntactical ability lies at the heart of what it means to be human.

Looking Back to Look Forward
The war in Ukraine is driven by territorial claims, aided by historical justifications that until recently seemed obsolete. This project starts from an assumption that to draw recommendations for managing major crises, supporting post-conflict recovery/reform, we must understand its history.