Understanding Ukrainian young people’s current concerns, needs, and hopes: Looking ahead to a future rebuilding of Ukraine
Research examining how the war in Ukraine shapes young people’s everyday life and perceptions of the future.
Cultural relations
Arts and Technologies in India: Reimagining the Future
This report provides a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge practice at the intersection of arts and technologies in India, with the voices of local artists and practitioners at its heart.
Cultural relations in schools: evolving practice in a globalised world
This study provides an overview of the benefits and impact of schools collaborating internationally through a cultural relations approach.
Coloniality, neo-orientalism, culture, and death: why it is time to move away from the ‘war on terror’ narrative
New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining and challenging the narrative of the West’s ‘War on Terror’.
Dynamics of 21st-century anti-coup resistance in Myanmar: triangle model of resistance in Myanmar
New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay exploring the resistance movement against the military coup in Myanmar.
Navigating the chemical weapons taboo: Russia’s response to the OPCW investigations in Syria, 2013–2022
New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining Russia’s response to investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the role of information warfare.
The politics of expendability: decolonial reflections on the state of climate justice at COP27
Winning dissertation of the New Voices in Cultural Relations competition. This essay examines the policy outcomes of the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27).
Discrimination in Europe from a Black European perspective: a framework for inclusion and anti-discrimination based on qualitative expert interviews with Black politicians in Europe
New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay investigating the phenomenon of Afrophobia/Anti-Black racism in Europe.
A Cultural Relations Approach to Development: Why and how the British Council approach to development works
New report on the valuable approaches that Cultural Relations offer to delivering development programmes in ODA countries.
Cultural relations, multilateralism and sustainable development
Reflections from the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance conference.