TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities .TORCH Hubs are points of synergy for cutting-edge, boundary-crossing research on political and cultural questions which are central to the Humanities at Oxford. TORCH Hubs work within and beyond the Humanities with researchers across the University of Oxford and across the globe. Find out more about our Headline Hubs driving forward a greater understanding of our world and the leading figures in research - such as the wonderful Prof. Patricia Kingori ! John F Kennedy BSc FIDM Dip DigM Dr Vicky McGuinness UK Research and Innovation https://lnkd.in/eQF3CYm6
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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University of Oxford | Humanities Division
About us
TORCH is an interdisciplinary research Centre that supports and promotes research collaboration of the highest quality that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and engages with wider and public audiences. TORCH provides an important opportunity for Oxford’s humanities scholars to collaborate with researchers across other disciplines, and institutions; work with academics across all stages of their academic careers; develop partnerships with public and private institutions; engage with wider audiences; and bring together academic research, diverse industries, and the performing arts. The centre is led by an academic director: Professor Christine Gerrard (English Literature) from 2023. The previous TORCH Directors were Professor Wes Williams (French Literature) 2020-2023, Professor María del Pilar Blanco (Spanish American Literature) 2020-2023, Professor Philip Bullock (Russian Literature and Music), 2017-2020, Professor Elleke Boehmer (World Literature in English) 2015-2017 and the founding Director was Professor Stephen Tuck (Modern History), 2012-2015. TORCH has continued to be a nucleus of intellectual energy for the humanities and a place to develop new ideas and collaborations both within and beyond the academy. Each year, TORCH supports around 400 events, reaching over 20,000 people, involving 400 affiliated researchers, and external partners. Since its creation, TORCH has raised over £3million in grants and philanthropy to develop research projects and support research. Over the first 10 years, TORCH has supported 60 interdisciplinary research networks and is the home for 5 major Research Hubs: Medical Humanities, Race and Resistance, Environmental Humanities, Performance, and Intersectional Humanities. To find out more about our Networks, Hubs, events and activities, and research opportunities visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk or sign up to our newsletter.
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http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk
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- Research
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Oxford, Oxfordshire
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- Educational
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Research, University, Publications, Early Career Researchers, Events, Funding, Humanities, Public Engagement, Research engagement, Knowledge Exchange, Communications, Outreach, and Interdisciplinary
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Humanities Division, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6GG, GB
Employees at TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Mai Musié
Ancient Historian/Public Engagement Professional
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Alexandra Coke
Theatre & Performance Research Partnerships Manager at University of Oxford
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Leif Bjarne Hammer
Historian of early modern Britain and Scandinavia | DPhil candidate, Oxford University
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Olana Peters
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; DPhil History
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Living in Oxford is a bit like being a kid in a candy store. So much to see. So much to do. So many arts, academic and music distractions. Love it. Some of my favs ... lectures at Oxford Martin School (https://lnkd.in/gNw6untJ), Oxford Mathematics (join the mailing list: [email protected]), TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (https://lnkd.in/gbBEee6x), Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/), THE OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL (https://lnkd.in/gvjuJPuR), Oxford Festival of the Arts (https://lnkd.in/gyfzPcMK), and Blackwell's Bookshops (https://lnkd.in/gAw6--_P). That's not including shows at Oxford Playhouse (https://lnkd.in/gb-RaQuP), The Old Fire Station, Oxford (https://lnkd.in/gZEn9MvF), The Ultimate Picture Palace (https://lnkd.in/gqmX76kY), New Theatre Oxford (https://lnkd.in/gGAkksg7), The North Wall Arts Centre (https://lnkd.in/gTXcyUV7) or the Phoenix Picturehouse (https://lnkd.in/gsu3tJWc). And so much more. Do I get distracted? Absolutely. On a regular basis. 😉 Many thanks to John Cairns - Photographer for this glorious photo.
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The Caribbean Oxford Initiative - CaribOx for short - is a new visiting fellowship and travel grant programme designed to stimulate purposeful and long-lasting collaboration between researchers from institutions in the Caribbean and the University of Oxford. University of Oxford The programme aims to be a nucleus for world-class international research and knowledge exchange across disciplines and across career paths and stages. TORCH TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities will be managing a pilot year of the Initiative in 2025, and CaribOx will offer two pathways for cross-institutional collaboration between the Caribbean and Oxford: Two Visiting Fellowships to support collaborations between researchers at a Caribbean institution and at the University of Oxford. The elected fellows will be affiliated with the University of Oxford for twelve months, with a ten month long virtual engagement starting from January 2025. A two month in-person visit to Oxford will take place between May and June 2025 (Trinity Term). One travel grant to support a researcher at an institution in the Caribbean to undertake a two-week research visit at the University of Oxford. https://lnkd.in/eZriRMG6
CaribOx: The Caribbean Oxford Initiative
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The Caribbean Oxford Initiative - CaribOx for short - is a new visiting fellowship and travel grant programme designed to stimulate purposeful and long-lasting collaboration between researchers from institutions in the Caribbean and the University of Oxford. The programme aims to be a nucleus for world-class international research and knowledge exchange across disciplines and across career paths and stages. TORCH will be managing a pilot year of the Initiative in 2025, and CaribOx will offer two pathways for cross-institutional collaboration between the Caribbean and Oxford: University of Oxford TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Find out more here https://lnkd.in/eZriRMG6
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Heather Professorship of Music at Oxford University The Faculty of Music and Wadham College intend to appoint to the Heather Professorship of Music with effect from 1 October 2025. The Heather Professor is the senior academic in the Faculty of Music, taking a leadership role in the research, teaching and administration of the Faculty and is closely involved in its strategic development. The Music Faculty will be moving into its brand-new home in the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities with, among other things, its 500-seat concert hall and ‘black box’ experimental music space. The new Heather Professor will be expected to take the lead in developing the exciting opportunities this space will offer for innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. We are seeking a scholar of the highest international standing with an outstanding record of research and publication in any area of musical scholarship (which may also include composition where this creative work is demonstrably research-led) and the academic stature and intellectual drive to help shape the study of music at the University Oxford for the next generation. For further details, follow this link: https://lnkd.in/e24K-MX8
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WHO DECIDES WHEN SOMETHING HAS ENDED? How do different ideas of the end reproduce pre-existing structural inequalities? What would a focus on after the end of events mean for the way we think about time? Prof. Patricia Kingori TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities John F Kennedy BSc FIDM Dip DigM The After the End project is an ambitious, multi-sited, long-term research project that involves a strong collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers from all over the world seeking to explore and understand different experiences of living through ends, living after the end, and equitable policies that take different ideas of ends and endings seriously. Through surveys, in-depth interviews, archival research and historical and literary examinations we seek to distinguish between ‘ending’ and ‘closure’ and counter dominant narratives of the end which make the pain, suffering and experiences of the least powerful invisible.https://https://lnkd.in/eRAd-V34
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities reposted this
The Caribbean Oxford Initiative - CaribOx for short - is a new visiting fellowship and travel grant programme designed to stimulate purposeful and long-lasting collaboration between researchers from institutions in the Caribbean and the University of Oxford. The programme aims to be a nucleus for world-class international research and knowledge exchange across disciplines and across career paths and stages TORCH will be managing a pilot year of the Initiative in 2025, and CaribOx will offer two pathways for cross-institutional collaboration between the Caribbean and Oxford: Find out more! John F Kennedy BSc FIDM Dip DigM TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities University of Oxford https://lnkd.in/eZriRMG6
CaribOx: The Caribbean Oxford Initiative
torch.ox.ac.uk
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The Caribbean Oxford Initiative - CaribOx for short - is a new visiting fellowship and travel grant programme designed to stimulate purposeful and long-lasting collaboration between researchers from institutions in the Caribbean and the University of Oxford. The programme aims to be a nucleus for world-class international research and knowledge exchange across disciplines and across career paths and stages TORCH will be managing a pilot year of the Initiative in 2025, and CaribOx will offer two pathways for cross-institutional collaboration between the Caribbean and Oxford: Find out more! John F Kennedy BSc FIDM Dip DigM TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities University of Oxford https://lnkd.in/eZriRMG6
CaribOx: The Caribbean Oxford Initiative
torch.ox.ac.uk
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WHO DECIDES WHEN SOMETHING HAS ENDED? How do different ideas of the end reproduce pre-existing structural inequalities? What would a focus on after the end of events mean for the way we think about time? Prof. Patricia Kingori TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities John F Kennedy BSc FIDM Dip DigM The After the End project is an ambitious, multi-sited, long-term research project that involves a strong collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers from all over the world seeking to explore and understand different experiences of living through ends, living after the end, and equitable policies that take different ideas of ends and endings seriously. Through surveys, in-depth interviews, archival research and historical and literary examinations we seek to distinguish between ‘ending’ and ‘closure’ and counter dominant narratives of the end which make the pain, suffering and experiences of the least powerful invisible.https://https://lnkd.in/eRAd-V34
About — After The End
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