Research
The Humanities Research Institute includes academics working in a range of disciplines, particularly military history, security studies, political history, the history of art, 19th-century literature and social history. Professor Alan Smithers runs the Centre for Education and Employment Research, from within the Department of Education. This has produced a series of reports on the fundamentals of secondary and primary education. From within the English department, Professor John Drew runs Dickens Journals Online, the project which has put the whole of Dickens's journalistic output on free-access on the web. The research unit devoted to contemporary Security Studies is run by Antony Glees.
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