We work in active ways to engage with a range of critical and often intersecting themes including (not exclusively):
- Disability
- Gender and sexuality
- ‘Race’, racialisation and racism
- Poverty
- Religions
- Spirituality and mysticism
- Global childhoods
- Ageing
- Youth
- Politics and Development
- Coloniality
- War, violence and conflict
- Non-violence, conflict resolution and conflict transformation
- Forced migration and citizenship
- Education and Critical Pedagogy
- Global health and rehabilitation
- Mindful use of digital technologies
- Decolonising, participatory and inclusive research methodologies
Our fellows come from diverse academic walks of life, interacting with each other in and through our research centres. Key disciplines and approaches they work across include:
- Critical Theory
- Critical Disability Studies
- Critical Psychology
- Community Psychology
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Anthropology
- Cultural Studies
- Sociology
- Development Studies
- Postcolonial theory
- Feminist perspectives
- Gender and queer studies
- Latin American Cultural Studies
- Religious Studies
- Critical Media Studies
- Critical Pedagogy
- International Relations
- Critical Global Health
- Critical Migration studies
- Political Theory
- Critical Youth Studies