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IASH interprets the word 'humanities' in the broadest sense: all matters concerning the human condition and culture fall within its range of interest, excluding only those which need the support of laboratories. We place particular importance on work that crosses the borders of the disciplines, believing that it is the task of research institutes such as this to facilitate dialogue between scholars of different backgrounds and to make a space where critical thinking can be free to go beyond the traditional compartmentalisations. We encourage work that is inventive and exploratory, and especially work that forges links between the humanities and the interpretive or historical social sciences, including legal theory, and between the humanities in this broad sense and the natural and technological sciences. The Institute has close
links with all the Schools
within the College
of Humanities and Social Science, as well as with a number of other
research institutes at the University of Edinburgh, including the Visual
Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh (VARIE), the Research
Centre for Social Sciences, the Centre
for the History of the Book, and the AHRC
Research Centre in Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT).
We also have collaborative links with a number of Edinburgh's cultural
institutions, including the National Museums
of Scotland, the National Galleries
of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland,
the National Archives of Scotland,
and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
At the core of the Institute is a group of Fellows, in residence for periods ranging from two to six months and working on individual research programmes approved by the Management Group. Fellows make public presentations of their work and are expected to publish the results in due course.
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