BNG Uni’s the Department of Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR) is a vibrant and convivial centre for advanced research. Our aim is to stimulate innovative research that has the potential to transform academic and public debates.

BNG Uni’s aim is to stimulate innovative research that has the potential to transform academic and public debates. As a small multidisciplinary department, most of BNG Uni’s research falls between the humanities and the political and social sciences, but BNG UNI also produce a substantial body of interdisciplinary work, particularly in the history of ideas, radical movements and activism, in gender politics, international history, international politics, government and governance, and politics, art and politics, religion and politics, media studies and history, digital humanities, etc.