Congratulations to HRC Postdoctoral Fellow Ishita Krishna for an article exploring objects and material decay in Samuel Beckett's Endgame as representations of abstract, existential ideas of mortality and death across text, stage, and archives 🎉 tinyurl.com/3bh9jpye

Join us for the HRC's First Annual Interdisciplinary Lecture. Dr Troy Kaighin Astarte will be presenting on '"YOU ARE MY WISTFUL SYMPATHY": Strachey, Turing, and (queer?) computer love' at 5pm. This is a hybrid event, more information and registration link on website www.york.ac.uk/hrc/events/2...

This year's Summer Research Celebration is on 24th June and celebrates projects funded by our PCKE (Place and Community Knowledge Exchange) fund. We invite presentations of up to 5 minutes. Here's the proposal form: tinyurl.com/4fwmnfvd

Thanks to everyone who joined our Family Fun Festival last Saturday. Here's a small 'thank you' from the Robodog brought to us by Isobel Standen from Philosophy and the team from the Institute for Safe Autonomy 🐶

Congratulations to all who shared their work as part of the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social. We had 8 great activities. Mia Gane from @uoyphilosophy.bsky.social explored the concept of home through crafts; Matthew Hall from @school-of-act.bsky.social invited participants to build their own bandstand.

This Saturday we are hosting the 'Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon' 🎉 We will have 8 activities for families running from 1pm to 4pm in the Ron Cooke Hub and that showcase research projects across the Faculty. No need to book just come along 😊 yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda...

Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon

Join us for an afternoon of energetic, creative, crafty, puzzling, scientific and historical fun at this year’s Festival Fringe Family Fun Afternoon.

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Last wk we held our annual HRC Doctoral Competition! Five researchers selected by their academic units through a competitive process shared their doctoral research in 10-minute presentations aimed at non-specialists. And what a wonderful set of presentations! All of them now HRC Doctoral Fellows 🎉

Last week we hosted the HRC Poster Competition! And what a delightful event it was - if we can say so ourselves. We received 16 entries from different academic units across the faculty. Top prizes went for...Joint First Prize...

Last Wednesday we hosted our annual HRC Poster Competition in Heslington Hall. We received 16 entries from different academic units in our Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It was a wonderful afternoon sharing research and networking. Thanks to all the researchers who participated.

Join us next Wed 13th May 12pm for our HRC Poster Competition in Hes Hall. 16 postgraduate researchers will be sharing their research posters and how they worked on using design skills to communicate their work to non-specialists. Lunch is provided (is there even learning with no food???!!! 😜)

Our HRC Doctoral Competition is taking place on Tuesday 19th May. We will be welcoming 5 doctoral researchers nominated by their academic units to represent them, who will be sharing their research for non-specialist audiences. Join us in Heslington Hall for a celebration of Arts and Humanities!

On 21st April we are hosting the event "Archives, Libraries & Me: Queer Britain - The National LGBTQ+ Museum London". Jennifer Shearman will be giving an introduction to the Museum and its collections and reflecting on the process of building a museum from scratch! tinyurl.com/yc2avdyn

HRC PGR Poster Competition 2026! Deadline for submissions is 29th April! An opportunity to test your skills in communicating your research beyond your own discipline. Open to PhD, MRes and MPhil students from any Arts and Humanities academic unit www.york.ac.uk/hrc/support-...

Inviting Expressions of Interest (EoI) for 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships. Deadline for EoI is 15th May. First step is to identify and contact a potential supervisor in one of our academic units, who can then complete the EoI with you marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

On 17 April we'll be hosting the online workshop 'Digital Cultural Heritage: showcasing research from the University of York and Virginia Tech'. It will focus on how cutting-edge technologies are transforming how we document, interpret, and experience heritage www.york.ac.uk/hrc/events/2...

Digital Cultural Heritage: showcasing research from the University of York and Virginia Tech

An online workshop exploring the frontiers of digital innovation, preservation and storytelling.

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Congratulations to our colleagues @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social on their grant success! They have been awarded funding by the AHRC and the German Research Foundation (DFG) to explore overlooked and underexplored sounds of conversation—such as sighs, clicks, and laughter.

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...

Project to examine how AI is changing the way science is done

A new research project is set to investigate how artificial intelligence is extending and transforming the abilities that scientists use to investigate the world.

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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 ⛄️