Culture and communication

Working on all periods from prehistory to the present, and on places across the globe, our researchers explore every kind of cultural activity, product and practice from poetry to pollution, alongside every aspect of communications from syntax to cyberspace.

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Arts and humanities

Culture and nature

The mental and the material

Image, language and political culture

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Sustainability a key theme at this year’s Mystery Plays

This year’s famous Mystery Plays will have a strong focus on sustainability, according to the Artistic Director, University of York PhD researcher Tom Straszewski.

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Study reveals flaws in using social media to identify race and ethnicity for health research

Mining social media to identify race and ethnicity as part of research into health disparities is unreliable and inconsistent, a new study has concluded.

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York academic leading project to reconstruct the famous Sutton Hoo ship

An emeritus professor at the University of York is leading a project to reconstruct the famous Anglo-Saxon ship found at Sutton Hoo.

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New research reveals how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods

New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe – revealing that the rodent colonised the continent on two occasions in the Roman and Medieval periods.

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Inspiring students and teachers of English Language

Research by experts at York is engaging teachers and students with the latest developments in linguistics, helping to build confidence, enhance results and inspire ambitions.

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Setting the standard for digitally preserving archaeological information

In 1996, two years before Google was launched, Professor Julian Richards and his team in the Department of Archaeology established the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), an internationally recognised digital archive which preserves data, and makes it freely available online.
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Material gains

The Hepworth Research Network focuses on the materials Barbara Hepworth used in her artworks.

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All that jazz

We're archiving the rich musical heritage of South African jazz.

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Our culture and communication research crosses academic boundaries. Find out more about the departments and related research groups involved in this work:

 

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Research Champions

Professor Keith Allen and Professor Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Research Champions for Culture and Communication

Stephanie Wynne-Jones is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology. Her research is based in Eastern Africa, where she works on urbanism, material culture and the links between history and archaeology.

Keith Allen is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses primarily on colour, perception and the mind, including the historical development of thinking about these issues.

Culture and communication research at York: overview (PDF , 190kb)

research-champions@york.ac.uk

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