Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research
Description
The Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research unites staff from across Scotland in a collaborative and interdisciplinary area studies centre at the University of Aberdeen.
The Centre includes research staff, research fellows, PhD students and visiting scholars from across the Himalayas.
The Centre's research covers a very wide range of topics. Research projects underway right now include: Tibetan divination, Tantric medicine, 17th century Scots in the Himalayas, plant collecting expeditions in the Solu Khumbu region, and spirit categories in Afghanistan.
Other research topics include:
- anthropology
- public health
- terrorism
- Buddhism
- botany
- global warming
- politics
- history
- Sanskrit
- development
- Nepali
- law
- conflict
- Islam
- Tibetan
- ethnobiology
- Hinduism
- Newari
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Contact details
Regent Walk
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
United Kingdom
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University affiliation(s)
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
Last modified:
2023-09-20 14:59:45