Academic research at IWM
IWM is an Independent Research Organisation, working in partnership with leading universities on academic research projects that provide new insight into the history of war and conflict. We also host students studying IWM’s world class collections through our Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
Our appetite for new approaches and our curators' knowledge of our extensive collections provides an essential grounding to how we curate and present the history of conflict. Our research aims to speak not just to the academic community but to all our audiences.
Accessible Pasts, Equitable Futures
Accessible Pasts, Equitable Futures is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project that explores how IWM's digital heritage collections can be made more accessible to disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent researchers.
This two-year research project is led by researcher Ann-Marie Foster and covers both online digital collections, and ones that can only be accessed in IWM's Research Room.
Current & Recent projects
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IWM (SE 1019)Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities and Empire in the UK is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, Swansea University and the IWM funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI).
The project examines how the peoples of the home nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) perceived their national identity and sense of belonging during the Second World War, and the extent to which this shifted as people moved across the British Empire at war.
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IWM MAU 489Cold War and 'Other Narratives'
Cold War and ‘Other Narratives’ is a collaboration between IWM and the University of the Arts London (UAL), London College of Communications.
Using the archives of IWM and taking the Cold War as a dominant narrative, this project explores diverse or buried stories that have impacted independence movements throughout the West's colonial territories.
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© HU 137369The Tim Hetherington collection and Conflict Imagery Network
Between 2020and 2022, the University of Leeds and IWM received Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for a series of network events, which explored the archive of the award-winning conflict photographer Tim Hetherington.
See our latest Research Reports.
