Research Principles and Themes
As a research collective spanning English Literature, History, Law, and Political Science, we are guided by the following four principles – EPIC – in the work we undertake:
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Education and knowledge for and by all: our research is the core of our teaching. We seek to reflect and write about the ways curricula and research activities can be welcoming and inclusive to all. This includes approaching our disciplinary and interdisciplinary work with the understanding that people come to know things in a variety of ways.
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Place: we are committed to positionality and recognise that the research themes we explore manifest differently in different contexts.
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Interdisciplinarity: we are experts in our individual disciplines with the confidence and experience to work at interdisciplinary interfaces.
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Creative practice: we believe in the transformative potential of arts and culture to bring people together and create new ideas and outcomes.
These principles are embedded in our research across four emerging themes (link out to the relevant page):
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Environmental Justice: we support an understanding of environmental change over time that puts justice for people, organisms, and eco-systems at its centre.
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Memory, Identity, and Heritage: we appreciate, explore, and critique the ways in which narratives of the past and present are shaped by memory and heritage, and the impact that has on societies and identities.
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Power, Violence, and Colonialism: we are sensitive to the inequities of power produced through violence and imperialism across time and space and seek to explore their origins and legacies, and how they are experienced and understood.
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Voice, Participation, and Governance: we evaluate the different ways that citizen voices are heard and silenced through participation, protest, and oppression in different political systems and processes of governance.
