Humanities Research Institute
Landmark building
At the heart of the Jessop Quarter lies the Humanities Research Institute (HRI). This handsome building, imaginatively designed by the Bond Bryan partnership, is an exciting blend of the old and the new. An existing Georgian building has been refurbished to very high specifications, and an extension (the Douglas Knoop Centre) with Sheffield's first green-roof development has been built in the adjacent garden area.
A cutting-edge research facility
Our award-winning institute for interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities is the home to many of our research and innovation activities. It comprises:
- An environment where collaborative research and knowledge exchange can be nurtured and flourish
- The home to cutting-edge research projects, many using innovative digital technologies and supported by HRI Digital
- A publisher of prestige humanities research resources and tools via HRI Online
- A venue for a wide range of thought-provoking events which bring people together across disciplinary boundaries
The HRI thus provides a physical focus for the work of the faculty and indeed for work linked to the arts and humanities across the University, and signals the University´s strong commitment to arts and humanities research, offering amongst other things:
- high-quality project research and management space in an interdisciplinary environment
- facilities for visiting researchers
- Access Grid facilities for Humanities group-based research in the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and White Rose Consortium (WRC) networks as well as other national and international research clusters
- state-of-the-art digitisation facilities
- a flexible location for conferences, seminars and reading groups
- space for small-scale exhibitions