Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

Tiffany Watt Smith never considered herself a "joiner"—until she was magnetically drawn to a local boxing club for women over forty and had to rethink everything she knew about friendship and herself.

A disastrous birthday bash made Tiffany Watt Smith wake up to the fact she'd always been a flaky friend. But is this an inevitable pitfall of modern life - or can we change our ways?

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

Self-help pundits advise us to cut difficult people out of our lives, but it’s not the only option

Self-help pundits advise us to cut difficult people out of our lives, but it’s not the only option

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Meteorite falls are extremely rare and offer a glimpse of the processes that formed our world billions of years ago. When a space rock came to an English market town in 2021, scientists raced to find ...

Are we living in an Age of Mistrust? Explore the biggest questions of our time with a lively evening of workshops, talks, and performances.

Are we living in an Age of Mistrust? Explore the biggest questions of our time with a lively evening of workshops, talks, and performances.

Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture by Professor Stephen Fleming.

Ann Widdecombe, Rachael Wiseman, Sarah Jilani and Tiffany Watt Smith with Matthew Sweet.

‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’ Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic ...

From the meaning of prehistory to the significance of children’s literature