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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Related departments
Our culture and communication research crosses academic boundaries. Find out more about the departments and related research groups involved in this work:
- Archaeology
- Biology
- Economics and Related Studies
- Education
- English and Related Literature
- Environment and Geography
- Health Sciences
- History
- History of Art
- Language and Linguistic Science
- Law
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Psychology
- School of Arts and Creative Technologies
- School for Business and Society
- School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
- Sociology
- Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
Related research groups
- Centre for Applied Human Rights
- Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture
- Centre for Digital Heritage
- Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies
- Centre for Global Health Histories
- Centre for Health Economics
- Centre for Housing Policy
- Centre for Human Palaeoecology and Evolutionary Origins (PALAEO)
- Centre for Medieval Literature
- Centre for Medieval Studies
- Centre for Modern Studies
- Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Centre for Research in Language Learning and Use
- Centre for URBan Research (CURB)
- Centre for Women’s Studies
- Humanities Research Centre
- Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past
- Morrell Centre for Toleration
- Music, Science and Technology Research Cluster (MSTRC)
- Psychology in Education Research Centre (PERC)
- Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique
- Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU)
- York Centre for the Americas
- York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis
- York Environmental Sustainability Institute
Research Champion

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