Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
Established in late 2024, the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory is funded by a £4M award from the Leverhulme Trust over five years. Led by Professor John Sutton and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory.
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Memory, emotion, and place
Anchored in Philosophy and housed in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Centre draws on cognitive sciences, social sciences, and the arts to break new ground in the study of spatial thinking, disorientation, and remembering the past. It connects the sciences of space and memory with contemporary practical concerns about memory, emotion, and place.
Centre researchers deploy diverse methods, integrating conceptual, experimental, and ethnographic approaches to address pressing questions about how people locate and orient themselves in space and time.