The School has a number of Research Centres and Groups conducting research relevant to History, Ancient History, Archaeology and Religion.
Centres
We aim to encourage and develop Cardiff University as a focus for research collaboration, conferences and publications in the field of crusading history.
Promoting the study of the culture, language, literature and history of the Welsh in the Americas.
Promoting and supporting research into Central and Eastern Europe at Cardiff University.
Focuses on the study of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and of texts and literatures related to these traditions in Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese and Japanese.
Promotes and supports the study of late antique religion and culture from the late Hellenistic to early Medieval periods across Europe, the Mediterranean and Near East.
Promoting scholarly and public understanding of Islam and the life of Muslim communities in the UK, with a particular emphasis on sociological and anthropological methodology.
We promote interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages by bringing together specialists from several different subject areas to collaborate in research and graduate teaching.
Groups
Archaeology of Wales is one of our major research strengths, revealing more about the nation’s fascinating past across a broad range of periods.
We are collaborating on projects across periods and cultures, using the latest cutting edge techniques to recreate technologies and sensitively conserve artefacts.
Furthering the understanding of changing experiences, representations, and roles of families, identities, and gender in past and present societies.
Internationally recognised for the strength of its ground-breaking archaeology relating to the European Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
Landmark sites in Britain and Wales are among a fascinating range of projects currently being investigated by our leading archaeologists.
Our archaeologists are learning more about this fascinating period of development in the Mediterranean, collaborating on an impressive range of projects across both Ancient and Classical Greece, Ancient Rome and the Near East including research in Egypt.
The research group encompasses staff from the humanities, social sciences, medicine and the biological sciences who are dedicated to the study of the history of science and the imagination.
Our Medieval Europe Research Group enables our archaeologists to use the latest technologies in research both at home and across Europe, including sites key to telling the story of the Crusades.