Environment

Explore how arts and humanities research uses methods including archival research and philosophical enquiry to investigate health, disability, healthcare and responsibility.

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Arts and humanities methods can reveal the complex relationships between environmental change, human societies and the more-than-human world. Researchers combine approaches including legal analysis, interviews and literary interpretation to examine the impacts of climate change, explore how policy operates in practice and surface perspectives that might otherwise be overlooked.

Professor Robert McKay

Professor Robert McKay explores how literary research can recover overlooked perspectives and help us think differently about human–animal relationships.

Dr. Agnes Rydberg

Dr. Agnes Rydberg discusses how doctrinal legal research and interviews can be combined to understand both the law and its real-world effects in the context of climate change.

More examples of Arts & Humanities research projects engaging with the environment, sustainability and the climate crisis...

What is Sustainability? An Arts & Humanities PerspectiveHow to Talk About Plastics#PeakNow75: A Large Landscape ModelClimate Justice in the Peaks

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