A fundamental element of The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme is its interdisciplinarity.  Each project within the programme will use evidence and ideas from more than one discipline to ask new questions of the evidence and to develop new methodological approaches to the study of the impact of deep-time diasporas.  Cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication is structurally embedded in the Research Programme to encourage new ways of thinking about old evidence and to interrogate old assumptions in the light of new data. Key to the programme is the unconventional approach of bringing together of scholars from a number of different disciplines all working simultaneously on interrelated projects.  

The Research Programme also seeks to develop best practice for pursuing research that crosses the traditional boundaries between science and humanities. For all these reasons the RA posts will run concurrently, sharing a daily work environment to facilitate the exchange of ideas and the development of new methodologies.  

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