Programme overview
Location
Cornwall Campus
Research students are supervised by academic staff within the Institute of Cornish Studies. The Institute is home to two high-profile research programmes: the Cornish Communities Programme, which encourages research on the issues of migration, community, family and identity at different geographical scales; and the Cornish Audio Visual Archive, an innovative programme for the study and documentation of the oral and visual culture of Cornwall.
Our main areas of research focus include:
- oral history
- migration studies
- identity
- politics and nationalism
- music and culture
- modern social history
Current MPhil/PhD students at the Institute are researching in the areas of Cornish music, Romany gypsies in Cornwall, the Celtic revival, 19th-century social history, Cornishness and the curriculum, demography, migration and banking history.
The Institute of Cornish Studies web pages provide more comprehensive details about current research projects. Details on individual staff research interests and publications can be found on the Cornish Studies staff profiles pages.
