Categories

Meaning as a social fact: how taste, symbols, ritual and everyday practice are produced and how they mark boundaries between groups.

Culture read as a site of power: popular media, subcultures and everyday practice, analysed with tools from social theory, semiotics and criticism.

What gets taught and who decided: the selection of content, the arguments behind a syllabus, and the hidden curriculum nobody wrote down.

Dance as an object of study: choreography and notation, its history, and the body as the medium the art is made of.

The storage, retrieval, and management of structured data, including query languages and transaction processing.

Drawing conclusions from data end to end: collection, cleaning, modelling and communication of the result.

Learning with many-layered neural networks: architectures, training methods, and what representation the layers end up holding.

How states become democracies, and how they stop being them: transition, consolidation and backsliding.

Populations as measurable things: birth, death, migration and age structure, and the models that project where they are heading.

The teeth, mouth and jaw: decay and periodontal disease, restoration, orthodontics and oral surgery.

The skin, hair and nails, and the systemic disease that often shows itself there first.

How a single fertilized cell becomes an organism: differentiation, pattern formation, and the genes that control both. Includes embryology.

How people change across a lifetime: what infants already know, what childhood adds, and what ageing takes away.

Why some economies stay poor: growth, institutions, poverty and the field experiments now used to test what actually helps.

Regional variation within a language: how features spread across a territory, and where the lines between varieties actually fall.

The design of instruction: how a subject is broken down, sequenced and put in front of a learner. The continental tradition's half of what English calls teaching methods.

Equations relating a function to its derivatives, ordinary and partial, and the study of their solutions.

Curves, surfaces and manifolds studied with calculus. The language general relativity is written in.

Smooth manifolds and the maps between them, up to smooth deformation rather than rigid shape.

Computational method applied to humanistic material: text at scale, mapped and modelled archives, and the argument about what such methods can and cannot show.