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The IAS is committed to supporting and developing exciting ideas with potential. 

In 2023/24, four projects will run,  two in each term (Michaelmas; and Epiphany): In Absence of Others; Abusing Antiquity; Understanding Offence, and Justice and Artificial Intelligence.  These projects began with preliminary ideas and planning in 2022/23, and 2023/24 sees an intensive term of activity for each project with visiting Fellows and a variety of events. 

Four new major projects will run in 2024/25: Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture; Looking Back to Look Forward; Humans and Numbers; and The Many Facets of Social Inequality. 

 

Future IAS projects

Click on the links below to take you to each individual project and further information. 

Abusing Antiquity

Seeks to investigate the colonisation of the classical past by a spectrum of political forces, with a particular focus on neo-Nazi and white-supremacist group.
Book watch and ancient text

In Absence of Others

An interdisciplinary project examines managers’ experiences when working alone.
women sitting by a window working from home

Understanding Offence

This project considers 'Offence' as a phenomenon and the challenges for society in attempting to regulate offensive speech and behaviour.
Face image with finger to lips

Justice and Artificial Intelligence

An examination of potential and actual sources of injustice within surveillance-cum-recognition and automated decision-making technologies.
surveillance cameras

Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture

This project proposes that this syntactical ability lies at the heart of what it means to be human.
A brain in colour. Image by natasha connell

Looking Back to Look Forward

History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale
Kyviv

Human and Numbers

Humans and Numbers seeks to understand how humans interact with numbers across contexts, disciplines and time through three core themes.
numbers

The Many Facets of Social Inequality

This project aims to gain new insights into these causes of inequality and poverty and develop effective policy solutions.
The ornate arch above Cosin's Hall entrance

This project proposes that this syntactical ability lies at the heart of what it means to be human.