Strategic Research Initiatives

Exploring Identities in the Levant

CBRL has introduced a new Strategic Research Initiative (SRI). The theme of this SRI, combining elements from several existing key research themes, is specifically linked to the  UK Government Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014 multidisciplinary research theme of identities and cultures.

Building on the success of our CBRL's Faynan Flagship Project project, CBRL will provide the research focus; award small grants; conduct research through its staff members; provide infrastructure support, and support publication; but much of the specific research funding will be obtained as individual research grants from other funding bodies.

CBRL’s main role continues to be the provision of a research network, linking people working in different disciplines, facilitating research, establishing local and regional academic links, sponsoring and organizing meetings.  

CBRL’s multidisciplinary interests and the complex nature of identity in the Levant (and related migrant populations in the UK) make us ideally placed to support this research theme incorporating identity, migration, diasporas, culture and language.

Events:

Refugees and other forced migrants<

Shifting Boundaries

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Research Themes


In accordance with the Strategic Research Plan (2006-09), the CBRL is supporting and promoting research in selected key research fields:

• The spread of early humans through the near East from Africa (more)

• The origins, development and practice of economic and social strategies in the Middle East from earliest times to the modern day (more)

• The development and workings of complex societies and their products (more)

• Long-term landscape and settlement studies; the relationship between people, past and present, and their built and natural environment (more)

• Synthetic studies of key historical periods (more)

• The interface between East and West (more)

• The investigation of multiple identities in the Middle East (more)

• The diachronic and synchronic study of the use of language, music and the written record in Middle Eastern society (more)

For further information regarding the types of funding and support available, see Funding Opportunities.

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Publication Projects

Tell Jezreel Post-Excavation and Publication Project

Ancient Jerusalem Project

Tell Nebi Mend Publication Project

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