- Politics and International Studies is a vibrant and convivial centre for advanced research. The aim is to stimulate innovative research that has the potential to transform academic and public debates.
- The university conduct research in contemporary politics and political theory, early modern and modern history, international organisation, and critical security studies. Most of the research falls between the humanities and the political and social sciences, but the university also produce a substantial body of interdisciplinary work, notably in the history of ideas, radical movements and activism, in gender politics, international history, and international politics, government and governance, art and politics, religion and politics, media studies and history, and digital humanities.