Past projects

Each year, the IAS supports ambitious and adventurous interdisciplinary projects tackling major research questions. Researchers from around the globe join Durham colleagues in collaborative teams to develop ground-breaking ideas, explore interdisciplinary synergies and develop new programmes of research. Learn more by following the links below.

Browse projects by year

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap

Negotiating landscapes of rights

Negotiating landscapes of rights

Exploring Arctic soundscapes

Exploring Arctic soundscapes

Conversations on Machine Learning and Conceptual Change

Conversations on Machine Learning and Conceptual Change

Science, society and environmental change in the first millennium CE

Science, society and environmental change in the first millennium CE

Absence/presence of Durham’s black history: Exploration of institutions, archives, students and pedagogies

Absence/presence of Durham’s black history: Exploration of institutions, archives, students and pedagogies

Threshold Worlds

Threshold Worlds

Quantifying the global risk of volcanic eruptions to the airline industry

Quantifying the global risk of volcanic eruptions to the airline industry

Science and the Media

Science and the Media

The Politics of Credibility

The Politics of Credibility

An Abolitionist Industrial Complex: Patterns of anti-trafficking/anti-slavery policy and practice in the 21st century

An Abolitionist Industrial Complex: Patterns of anti-trafficking/anti-slavery policy and practice in the 21st century

Enabling responsible space exploitation

Enabling responsible space exploitation

Interdisciplinary priorities for an inclusive neurodiverse society

Interdisciplinary priorities for an inclusive neurodiverse society

Risks to Youth and Studenthood in Digital Spaces

Risks to Youth and Studenthood in Digital Spaces

Masculinities in Martial Sports: West, East and Global South

Masculinities in Martial Sports: West, East and Global South

Representing Memory

Representing Memory

Material Imagination

Material Imagination

Firing up the epistemological engine

Firing up the epistemological engine

Who are “We the People”?: Community beyond the state

Who are “We the People”?: Community beyond the state

Feeling political: how intimacy and everyday life make political identities

Feeling political: how intimacy and everyday life make political identities

Dynamic Interactions at Cell Membrane Interfaces

Dynamic Interactions at Cell Membrane Interfaces

Opportunities in Pollution

Opportunities in Pollution

Syntactical structures and the evolution of mind and culture

Syntactical structures and the evolution of mind and culture

Mediation for the twenty first century: Connecting the local and the global

Mediation for the twenty first century: Connecting the local and the global

Antibacterial Clay Therapy

Antibacterial Clay Therapy