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Activities between the University of British Columbia and Exeter include a joint research symposium focused on Community, Culture, Creativity, and Wellbeing held at Exeter in May 2018 and a faculty-led, co-funded initiatives in Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Climate Change and Digital Humanities.

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Exeter and IIT Delhi combine expertise to work on issues of major importance to the UK and India; this includes enhancing sport capacity, working towards a greener future via clean energy and environment projects, and developing operations research.

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The University of Exeter and Tsinghua University have launched a jointly-awarded PhD degree programme in climate and environmental sciences which supports six students to be co-supervised between Tsinghua's Department of Earth System Science and Colleges at Exeter that conduct research on earth systems and environmental sciences. Read more.

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Our strategic partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has established the Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE) Joint Centre, supporting impactful research collaborations that address key SDGs and global climate challenges.

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Exeter & Paris-Saclay collaboratively deliver a series of double PhD degree projects. The universities offer joint funding to provide tuition, living, travel and research costs, and the opportunity to obtain two PhD awards from both Exeter and Paris-Saclay.

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To celebrate, and further extend, the strong relationship of staff within the University of Exeter and the University of Geneva, the two universities have launched a new seed fund to support developing research links.

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The University of Exeter and The University of Queensland have partnered to establish the QUEX Institute, a new multi-million pound partnership designed to bolster their joint global research impact. Read more.

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The University of Exeter has extended its partnership with Duke University through a new collaborative agreement to work together to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. These are Investing in Health; Sustainability and the Environment; Public Policy and Global Security; Digital Worlds – Approaches to Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Social Sciences.

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Archaeology and History

Our research themes

The research culture in the Department of Archaeology and History is characterised by world-leading and internationally excellent research projects and publications in a wide range of sub-disciplinary fields. Find out more about our carefully selected primary themes below.

Bioarchaeology

Our bioarchaeological research combines the study of archaeology with branches of the natural and physical sciences to address questions of health and well-being, diet, ecology, subsistence strategies and natural and human-induced environmental impacts in the past.

Heritage and Locality

The South West region's historic landscape offers unrivalled opportunities to explore its archaelogy, landscape and histories, and the myths and stories associated with particular sites, such as Tintagel which was, according to medieval legend, the birthplace of King Arthur.

Landscape Archaeology

Our landscape research is characterised by its interdisciplinarity, methodological innovation, commitment to fieldwork, and relevance to modern day society. Many of our research projects involve active collaboration with scholars from other disciplines.

Material Culture

Material culture and social agency research at the University of Exeter blends theoretical and methodological concerns with interdisciplinary perspectives, aiming at understanding the relationship between people and things both in the past and in the contemporary world.

Socio-economic History

There is a long tradition of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. Particular strengths in Economic and Social History at Exeter are early modern history (1500-1800), maritime history, and the use of manuscript documents for quantitative and qualitative research.