Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

Join us to explore themes in the forthcoming OUP book Living without Memory: Amnesia and the Lives of Persons by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum.
Full details, including in-person and online registration links, will be shared soon.
#Amnesia #Identity #MemoryStudies #PlaceAndMemory

Please sign up. We can do limited hybrid - if you would like to attend online to listen to presentations, please email curric-stir @stir.ac.uk (remove space from email address)

EOIs open for the 2026 Preserving Archaeological Remains in Situ Conference, hosted by Historic England. Themes: climate change, new developments in the science of preservation & progress over the last 30 years.

📅: 14-16 May 2026
📍: London & online

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We look forward to hosting Carl Craver this September - more news soon...

Meet our people. Ruth Olden is a cultural geographer with a background and training in landscape architecture. Her research seeks to advance geographical and interdisciplinary perspectives on memory, health and place, with a view to shaping innovations in placemaking practice.

From the Topographies of Violence conference in Mostar to the Youth and Heritage summer school in Stolac, Bosnia, the Centre researchers Safet HadžiMuhamedović and Sofya Shahab explored what it means to protect, rebuild, and reimagine heritage after violence.

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 APEX Awards, granted to ten researchers to pursue innovative, interdisciplinary research. The awards are supported by the @leverhulme.ac.uk and delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and @royalsociety.org: buff.ly/eF30SQq

Black background with gold swirls. One hundred and fifty-two Early Career Fellowships awarded. Leverhulme Trust logo, URL: leverhulme.ac.uk/news

The Trust is pleased to invest £15.5 million in supporting early career researchers. Projects funded this year include unifying glacier sliding theory to improve global sea level rise projections, and women remaking medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

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Born to Lose, a new book by Centre researcher Paul Max Morin, traces the lives of a group of young people in Normandy whose discovery of punk music in 1977 turned their lives upside down. Out next year.

Born to Lose, a new book by Centre researcher Paul Max Morin, traces the lives of a group of young people in Normandy whose discovery of punk music in 1977 turned their lives upside down. Out next year.

Dr Chelsea Sambells Centre Manager Chelsea is the Centre Manager, overseeing the Centre’s daily operations and actively contributing to its strategic direction. She works closely with staff and students to suppo…

Meet our people. Chelsea is the Centre Manager, overseeing the Centre’s daily operations and actively contributing to its strategic direction. Chelsea is also a 20th-century historian specialising in the Second World War, the Holocaust, refugees, children and humanitarianism.

Join us at the University of Stirling to explore the memory, material traces, and places of everyday life — from the official to the overlooked — with archaeologist and heritage practitioner Professor @tracyireland.bsky.social

The Pacific voyage guided by just a spiritual GPS Researchers bid to unlock secrets of the Marshall Islands ‘wave pilots’ – and learn more about Alzheimer’s

Pablo is using accelerometers to record the effect of the ocean waves, and match them with brain waves taken from EEGs of everyone on board.
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Centre researcher Pablo Fernandez Velasco is in the Marshal Islands studying how indigenous navigators find their way across the Pacific Ocean, without GPS, sextant or sometimes even the stars to guide them. 🧠 🌊⛵️🛶

Meet our people. Paula Reavy is our Deputy Director and Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University. Paula’s work explores mental health and memory drawing on process theory and phenomenology.

A Marseille, un temple du prêt-à-porter fait son inventaire colonial Proche du Vieux-Port, le somptueux édifice qui abrite depuis 2021 un magasin Uniqlo a été érigé en 1919 par la Compagnie algérienne, ancien bras financier de la colonisation. Un groupe d’étudiants en ...

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Direct from Le Monde newspaper. The Safe of the Empire is a project led by Centre researcher, Paul Max Morin, on a mysterious Safe turned into a fitting room in the basement of a Uniqlo shop in central Marseille.

His long-standing research projects have addressed collaborative recall, intelligent action, perspective in memory, and cognitive history.
Learn more about John here:
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Meet our people. @suttonprofessor.bsky.social is our Centre Director. He is a cognitive philosopher whose work addresses memory, skill, cognitive humanities, place, and distributed cognition.

8 mai 1945 à Sétif : jour de victoire en France, jour de massacres en Algérie Jour de liesse en France, le 8 mai 1945 est en Algérie un jour de deuil. Les massacres qui débutent ce jour-là à Sétif, Guelma et Kherrata vont causer des dizaines de milliers de morts.

Chilling reminder from Paul Max Morin of how the celebration of VE Day coincided with the Setif massacre in Algeria: theconversation.com/8-mai-1945-a...

LOVE Hill House

We talked with our hands at our first international panel, ‘Places of trouble, division, ethics and creativity: towards a situated and distributed approach to place memory’, at the Memory Studies Association conference in Prague.

Huge thanks to Professor Sarah Gensburger and centre researchers John Sutton, Paula Reavey, Paul Max Morin and Tânia Casimiro for making it happen

Big moment for us last week. We hosted our first international panel, ‘Places of trouble, division, ethics and creativity: towards a situated and distributed approach to place memory’, at the Memory Studies Association conference in Prague.

Scientists join indigenous Pacific sailors to investigate traditional navigation skills in the open ocean | About | University of Stirling Scientists join indigenous Pacific sailors to investigate traditional navigation skills in the open ocean

Traditional indigenous Marshall Islands navigators join cognitive neuroscientists in cutting-edge research on the vast Pacific Ocean: our @memoryplace.bsky.social colleague @pfvelasco.bsky.social studying dynamic intelligence in action www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Tomorrow! two-hour online workshop on distributed creativity and cognition in film-making with my fab friend and collaborator Karen Pearlman (www.karenpearlman.net), 11am-1pm Thursday UK time, highly recommended physicaltv.com.au/distributed-...

Dr Ruth Olden presents

'Curated decay' Centre Fellow Dr Ruth Olden zooms in and out on one particular wall in the ruin of Kilmahew-St Peter’s where a team of artists, architects & designers worked together to deliver a novel and experimental approach to heritage site presentation and management - on Zoom now

Vacancy Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Join us online or in-person in Edinburgh this Monday!

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Associate Professor Celia Harris presents Memory Scaffolding: from theory to practice tomorrow - join in person or online - Celia discusses how social & material environments support memory as we age, drawing on both lab-based and field-based research.