Arts research groups and centres

The Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SEARI) focuses on cross-disciplinary research on contemporary Southeast Asia. It aims to foster a supportive research environment on Southeast Asia at UC and bring faculty and students together.

UC's Confucius Institute (CI) is part of the global CI network. CIUC is managed by the UC (New Zealand), in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). Learn more about our Confucius Institute.

The New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (NZCHAS) brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences whose research and teaching is concerned with the conceptual and material treatment of nonhuman animals in culture, society, and history.

The Public Diplomacy and Political Communication Forum (PD-PCF) is a multi- and inter-disciplinary research platform that unites leading experts and early-career researchers in a transnational network in their study of public diplomacy and political communication.

UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive is a comprehensive digital archive of video, audio, documents and images related to the Canterbury Earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.

The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) is a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to studying human language. From linguistics and language disorders to memory and cognitive science, our researchers come from a wide range of disciplines.

Established in 2019, UC's Food, Policy and Wellbeing (FPW) Research Cluster is split into four subgroups. These focus on different research areas that examine how sustainable food can support wellbeing. Learn more about our Food, Policy and Wellbeing Research Cluster.

The Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies (MBC) is a world leader in interdisciplinary research on the Pacific. We're at the forefront of publishing and disseminating knowledge on a wide range of issues related to Pacific peoples.

The National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) is New Zealand’s only research centre that's devoted to studying Europe and the European Union (EU).

The New Zealand South Asia Centre (NZSAC) at UC is designed to promote recognition and understanding of South Asian societies and cultures in New Zealand.

The Bercovitch Data Centre disseminates research work and data on conflict, mediation, and peace-building to policy-makers and scholars. Learn about UC's Bercovitch Data Centre for Conflict Mediation, and Peace Building.

Hei Puāwaitanga: Sustainability, Citizenship and Civic Imagination is a multidisciplinary international research team and civics lab at UC.