HRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-2027. Open to recent York Arts and Humanities doctoral graduates. The fellowships are non-stipendiary, but come with a research grant of £1,000, HRC Associate status, a bespoke mentorship programme, and desk space www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

The HRC Doctoral Competition is back! We love this annual event bringing together top researchers from all of our academic units to share and celebrate their work. This opportunity is open to 3rd year doctoral researchers. You can find more information on our website www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

HRC PGR Poster Competition 2026! An opportunity to test your skills in communicating your research beyond your own discipline. Deadline for submissions is 29th April and the event is on 13th May www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

Call for contributions to the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Fringe Family Fun Afternoon. Push your public engagement skills in an interactive family-friendly setting! The event is on Sat 6th June, the deadline for proposals is 16th March. Check your emails for information on making a submission.

Next Wednesday we are welcoming Dr Ricardo Álvarez, Senior Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), for a fascinating talk on brass bands and social movements in Chile. More details on our website: york.ac.uk/hrc/events/

We are delighted to announce this year's HRC Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events Fund. A fund that enables staff/research students to put together academic research events that benefit multiple disciplines. Deadline: 12pm 6th March. Check your emails for more information😊

On 26th Feb 10am we are hosting our Postgraduate Researcher Welcome event. There will be tea/cake - key ingredients of every successful welcome/community-building event 🍰 A chance to meet the team, find out more about what the HRC offers, and share your thoughts. More information in your emails.

We are incredibly proud to announce that Megan Russell has won a Faculty of Arts and Humanities 'Making the Difference' Award. Megan is central to all our work at the HRC and has had a leading role in the move to our new home in Heslington Hall. Huge congratulations! 🎉

Thrilled to announce the opening of expansive, dedicated study space for all Arts/Humanities PGRs within Heslington Hall. The lower ground floor is your new vibrant hub for interdisciplinary postgraduate research, offering state-of-the-art facilities designed to support your work

Michael Stuart (@miikeessttuuart.bsky.social) from @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social has just been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to spend 5 years working on the impacts of artificial intelligence on science. Huge congratulations! www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Last but not least in the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded by the HRC: the 1st Summer School in Computational Approaches to Historical Linguistics took place in Plovdiv (Bulgaria). Organised by Dimitar Kazakov and Giuseppe Longobardi. More on this in the blog post tinyurl.com/5vhkxkr5

Call for Papers: Philosophical Psychology Journal - Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence edited by Department of Philosophy's Fiora Salis and Kengo Miyazono (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hokkaido University) Deadline: 31st May tinyurl.com/2ranxkw9

Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer. We supported 'Norse in the North', an annual event demonstrating the strength and originality of Old Norse research in the North of England, in the form of an interdisciplinary conference tinyurl.com/my6mwhu8

Happy New Year! 🎉 Here are some photos of our new home Heslington Hall in the snow ⛄️

Continuing to highlight the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events funded last summer by the HRC. 'Environmental Art and Activism: Imagining Anthropocene Futures' by Catherine Love-Smith (Arts and Creative Technologies) and Felicia Liu (Environment & Geography) www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

Last academic year the HRC funded a number of Interdisciplinary Collaborative Events led by staff and students. Today and in the next few posts we'll be highlighting the events that were funded and which showcase the wide range of expertise and interests in our Faculty 🎉

With the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo described as "one of the most ambitious cultural projects in modern history", Jo Fletcher from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social was asked for interviews by various international news channels and Egypt's national TV channel Nile News and magazine Akher Sa’a.

HRC's Deputy Director @marianajlopez.bsky.social wrote a blog post about the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries hosted by @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the #EnhancingAD project enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

Grace McCulloch from the Archaeology Data Service is leading the workshop 'Unearthing Herbal Histories with Digital Archives' as part of the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social Join the team to create your own herbal remedies, inspired by archaeological evidence www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/unear...

Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.

Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.

We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.

Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.

Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.

Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.

Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.

Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...

We are proud to share this wonderful Research Journey piece about @helenlouisecowie.bsky.social from the Department of History. While most historians focus their attention on the lives of humans in the past, Helen has chosen to uncover the often forgotten lives of animals 🐾 tinyurl.com/bdzyxwh5

We love a research story about wolf cubs...especially Ice Age ones 🐾 Anne Kathrine Runge from Archaeology used ancient DNA methods to learn that the pups were from the same litter and they had eaten woolly rhinoceros and a wagtail before dying in their den tinyurl.com/msavwu8n

Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊

This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 is taking place next week and there's still time to register 😀 One of the organising team members, @claunader.bsky.social, is one of our wonderful HRC Postdoctoral Fellows www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

Congratulations to all Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researchers who presented their work in the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social's Family Fun Afternoon 😊 They had the task of adapting their research to make it interactive for families, and they succeeded, providing a range of amazing activities. A 🧵

Dr Hannah Roche (@heroche.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer at York and Prof. Katy Mullin (University of Leeds) have been working on the Brontës and coercive control as part of an AHRC-funded project. You can read more about their work in this article theconversation.com/emily-bronte...

Delighted to be hosting the Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social on Sat 7th June. An interactive day with lots of different activities to enjoy and led by our wonderful doctoral researchers. We will be in the Ron Cooke Hub 1 to 4pm 🥳 tinyurl.com/yh92dz6a

Congratulations to the 2025 HRC Doctoral Fellows 😊 Selected by their academic units, yesterday we got to hear about their exciting research. As part of the competition we also awarded additional prizes to Mengjin Xue (History), Gemma Shearwood (History of Art) and Yannick Signer (Archaeology)

This week we'd like to shine the spotlight on the Picturing Grief project, which was done in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy (@griefyork.bsky.social). Engage with the beautiful photos, as well as the important resources and purpose behind them www.projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr...

Tim Leandro, Senior Lecturer in Directing for Film and Television at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies has just had his book published. The book focuses on his personal take on directing after a lifetime in the industry. Designed to inform, educate and entertain.

Join us on 21st May 12.30pm in the Treehouse for the finals of the HRC Doctoral Competition. A great chance to be inspired by all the wonderful work being done by doctoral researchers across the faculty. Check your emails for the Google Form to sign up to attend 🏆

“Your heart literally does ache. I didn’t know that.” As well as sharing online, images from our Picturing Grief series have been turned into postcards and coasters and left where people might stumble across them. projectinggrief.com/picturing-gr... #dyingmattersawarenessweek #philsky #grief

As part of the Festival of Ideas, 'Syncretism Events' is presenting "Echoes of the Moon" - an event combining spectacular lighting design, immersive projections, aerial work, and live music at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies. Can you help with their fundraising? tinyurl.com/4sbnnhe5

Congratulations to HRC Postdoctoral Fellow Grace Murray, who was Doctoral Fellow at the British Library and National Trust, working on the Library's horticultural collections and assisting with research/curation for the new exhibition ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

The Centre for the Study of Christianity & Culture helped St. Mary's Burford by creating a touchscreen allowing visitors to explore a stained glass window in the south transept, and other monuments, including the dramatic story of a murder victim! The work was funded by the Friends of Burford Church

Thank you to everyone who participated in the PhD Poster Competition! Lots of creativity and a wide array of research topics. Special congratulations to our top prize winners Louise Calf (Archaeology), Summer Sapiano (English and Related Literature) and Andy Egerton (@school-of-act.bsky.social)

Project Spotlight! A grant of over £1m has been awarded to Archaeology for a project that investigates the Roman funerary custom in and around York in the 3rd/4th centuries CE of pouring liquid gypsum over the wrapped bodies of individuals in stone or lead coffins before burial seeingthedead.ac.uk

The HRC Poster Competition Finals Event is this coming Thursday 17th April at 12:30 in The Treehouse. There are 13 finalists who will be joining us to talk to attendees about their posters and their research. Check your emails for more information 😊

Dr Sophie Coulombeau, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, is a Co-Investigator in the AHRC-funded project, 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers A window onto eighteenth-century life, literature and language'. You can catch up on Sophie's work here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...