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Aston University is launching a new research centre that aims to create innovative, interdisciplinary associations across its College of Business and Social Sciences and Wider University- enabling smaller groups to come together in order to prepare and develop research objectives.

REACH- The Research Centre for the Humanities will formally launch on 22 September with an event and the foremost lecture in a continuous series.

REACH’s work will be applied and sensitive to the requirements of the wider community, committed to delivering high-quality research as a method of solving real-world problems. The lecture series is committed to facilitating connections with other universities, institutions, centres, or businesses while showcasing the ground-breaking humanities research at Aston University with a specific interest in applied, interdisciplinary research.

The first lecture series subject will be The Gothic Humanities in the Biosciences. The speakers for the first in that series will be Dr. Ann B Vernallis, senior lecturer in cell biology, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University- Frankenstein and Biosciences, and Dr. David Shuker, senior lecturer in behavioral ecology, School of Biology, University of Saint Andrews- Evolutionary Gothic.

Dr. Abigail Boucher, director of REACH, stated that we are pleased that Aston University is investing in its humanities provision and acknowledges the applied, interdisciplinary, real-world value that humanities subjects hold. The centre will emphasize the world-leading humanities research already being initiated across all three University Colleges.

He added that some subjects of our forthcoming lecture talks include accountancy, history, and empire business values taught through the film’, ‘substance abuse and addiction in science & popular culture, and ‘menopause and aging in medicine & fiction. I am looking forward to witnessing academics and enthusiasts alike at our blastoff event on 22 September.