This page lists some of our most recent alumnae/i and allows you to browse their profiles and find out more about their research topics.
If you wish to view a full alphabetical register of our former Fellows, please visit this page.
We have also created a dynamic map showing some of the places our former Fellows have come from, which you can find here.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is located within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.
In order to realise our mission of fostering interdisciplinary research across the 12 Schools in the College, we work with a Management Group of senior academics from a broad range of disciplines. The Management Group meets twice a year.
The main entrance is at 2 Hope Park Square. There is no vehicular access to Hope Park Square itself: taxis and vehicles can pick up / drop off from Meadow Lane.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies was founded in 1969 within the then Faculty of Arts at the University of Edinburgh by Professor John MacQueen, Professor of Scottish Literature and Oral Tradition and Professor Conrad Hal Waddington, Professor of Animal Genetics. Beginning the following year, IASH began to host visitors, and more than 1,500 researchers and creative practitioners have since undertaken IASH Fellowships.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
It provides an international, interdisciplinary and autonomous space for discussion and debate. Since its foundation, more than 1,500 scholars from 70 countries have held Institute fellowships; and up to 28 Fellows are in residence at any one time. Housed in a secluded 19th-century courtyard overlooking the Meadows, the Institute is adjacent to most centres of University activity.
Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship represent a rapidly growing focus of research and public engagement within IASH. Digital scholarship is not a new thing within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, but its development is being hastened by continuing developments in processing power, software and the ubiquity of computers. The digital humanities can be thought of as being made up of two types of activity, even if these are not fully distinct in practice.
Medical Humanities and Health Humanities is a broad field, encompassing areas as diverse as the history of medicine, medical ethics and law, pedagogy in physician training, and medical anthropology. In addition, doctor-writers from John Keats to Anton Chekhov, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Nawal el Saadawi have written about the great dramas of human life and existence, while artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois and Frida Kahlo have used lived experience of physical and mental health issues to inform their art.
The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network is an exciting initiative in the study of environmental issues. The network presents researchers within the humanities with a forum in which to engage with each other’s work, to share insights, and develop collaborative partnerships. IASH's Environmental Humanities Fellows contribute to the Network in a variety of ways.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh is one of the world's premier Institutes for Advanced Study. We support innovative research and public engagement activities across the arts, humanities and social sciences through a range of interdisciplinary and international projects and programmes.