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Education

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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and scholarship

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  • Cambridge Humanities Research Grants (CHRG)

Our research

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  • Climate and Environmental Sustainability
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  • Legacies: Enslavement, Freedom, Futures

Our research stories

  • Our research stories overview
  • A transdisciplinary approach to the human-technology interface
  • Colonial Natures
  • How can we explore a ‘global history’ for the many?
  • Smart Forests

Research Ethics Approval

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  • Participants under 18 Guidance

CamPo Research Partnership

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  • Collaborative Grant
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PhD Student Exchange

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  • Interview with Louis Baktash

J M Keynes Fellowship Fund

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  • About the Fellowship
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  • J M Keynes Fellows
  • Fellowship Fund Managers

Research experience placements

  • Research experience placements overview
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What happens on the programme

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Institutions in the School

The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences is made up of the following institutions:

  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of History
  • Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science, which comprises:
    • Department of Archaeology (inc the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)
    • Department of Social Anthropology (inc Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit
    • Bennett School of Public Policy
    • Department of Politics and International Studies
    • Department of Sociology
  • Faculty of Law, including the Institute of Criminology and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
  • Department of History and Philosophy of Science, including the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
  • Department of Land Economy

The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences acts as the co-ordinating body for this group, directing academic and financial planning, allocating resources and supporting the above institutions.

The School also maintains links with other related institutions, for example: the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), and the Centre for History and Economics.

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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01223 766238

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