The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) was established at the University of Cambridge in 2001 as a hub for dynamic scholarly encounter and development. Our mission is to promote collaborations across the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and beyond their edges, in order to stimulate innovative and interdisciplinary thinking and dialogue and to reach out to new networks of interest and new publics.

CRASSH serves the needs of scholars at all stages of their careers, from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to established academics. We demonstrate that the artificial barriers that can exist between such constituencies can be breached to benefit all concerned.

CRASSH supports research across a range of core programmes and research initiatives and is part of the Centre for Disciplinary Innovation project sponsored by the Andrew W Mellon foundation.