This interactive map allows users to explore various collaborative research infrastructures related to Law and the Humanities across the UK. Use the filters on the left to refine your search and uncover new intersections across disciplines.
The map is meant to be a tool that comprehensively shows the scope, spread, and interconnections of infrastructures shaping the Law and the Humanities research landscape, but it is not exhaustive. Rather, we see it as a launchpad, a starting point. It is maintained by the community, and it is for the community: a shared resource to support visibility, collaboration, and advocacy across institutions and initiatives.
💡 Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, student, or simply curious — this map is here to help you navigate the growing field of Law and the Humanities research.
Law and the Humanities Map at SLSA 2026: The LHub and MAHP teams are at the
Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference
at the University of Sussex until 1st April. We'll be exploring the resource with researchers and delegates — come say hello and help us shape what the map becomes next!
March 30, 2026
New Law Entanglement Slider: We’ve recently introduced a new slider to sit alongside the existing humanities entanglement slider, helping reflect the degrees of thematic involvement.
New Project Tag Added: Following community discussions, we’ve also added “Critical legal studies” as a project tag to improve the visibility of work in this important area.
IDENTIFYING ACTIVE AND INACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURES: We're adding filters to distinguish between active and inactive infrastructures. This will improve searchability and help trace the legacies of long-running initiatives -- it's a living archive!
BEYOND ACADEMIA: Soon you'll see enhanced visibility of non-academic collaborations, reflecting the vital role of charities, community partners, NGOs, and the GLAM sector.
YOUR OWN KEYWORDS: User-contributed keywords will be made visible across the platform! This will help everyone explore how infrastructures describe themselves in their own terms.
From the Community
A Short Introduction to the Map
Hear from the team and community about what this resource is, how it works, and why it matters.
Filter Infrastructures
How filters work:
Start with Law (cannot be removed)
Add up to 3 more tags; choose AND/OR logic for each
Use Show Heatmap Overlay to visualise concentrations
Filters update the map and visualisations in real-time
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* Some infrastructures aren’t tied to a physical location and won’t appear on the map — but they’re
still included in our visualisations and in the relationship network.
Humanities Entanglement
A&H Entanglement Filter
Please note: This is a BETA feature, focusing on the presence of Arts &
Humanities subjects other than Law.
The A&H Entanglement Filter helps you identify infrastructures with stronger
connections to Arts & Humanities subjects,
though Law is always present in some capacity.
Higher scores indicate the centrality of an A&H subject.
Emerging (1): A&H terms found in tags
Integrated (2): Terms in both description & tags
Strong (3): Terms found in title
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Law Entanglement
Law Entanglement
Use this slider to gauge how central Law is to an infrastructure.
1: Law appears in tags
2: Law appears in tags and description
3: Law and law-adjacent keywords are found in the title
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Data Visualisations
About these visualisations
This interactive map allows users to explore various collaborative research
infrastructures
related to Law
and the Humanities across the UK. Use the filters on the left to refine your search and
uncover
new
intersections across disciplines.
The visualisations presented below include word clouds, bar charts,
network
diagrams,
and relationship graphs to help you explore the Law and the Humanities landscape
from
multiple angles.
They update dynamically as you apply filters—so what you see always reflects your
selections.
These visualisations are not definitive, final, or flawless. They’re
experimental,
suggestive,
and occasionally a bit weird. And that’s exactly the point. They're designed to help you
spot
patterns,
question possible absences, and reflect on how infrastructures can present themselves.
Feel
free
to play
with the data! Test assumptions!
This is a collaborative resource, and you are essential in helping us improve it.
If you spot something, say something. If you want to experiment -- we're only
an
email
away,
and we'd love to explore your ideas and bring your vision to fruition.
Most Associated Tags with Law
This visualisation shows the topics and themes most frequently
associated
with Law infrastructures. Larger words appear more frequently across Law-related resources,
indicating stronger connections. These represent established interdisciplinary bridges
between
Law
and other fields. Try the A&H entanglement filter to see more targetted connections with
Arts
and
Humanities.
Least Associated Tags with Law (Gaps)
These are topics that appear least frequently with Law
infrastructures,
representing potential gaps or opportunities for new interdisciplinary connections. These
less-common associations might indicate emerging or underdeveloped intersections between
fields.
Try the A&H entanglement filter to see more targetted connections with Arts and Humanities
Co-occurrence with "Law"
This bar chart quantifies how often specific tags appear alongside
"Law"
across the infrastructure database. Please note: it only shows the top 15 tags that co-occur
with
Law.
Distribution of A&H Entanglement Scores
This pie chart shows how strongly infrastructures are entangled
with
Arts
&
Humanities, based on title, description, and tags.
Distribution of Law Entanglement Scores
This pie chart shows how central "Law" might be to an infrastructure,
based on its presence in the title, description, and tags.
Tag Relationship Network
This network diagram visualises relationships between different tags
that
co-occur with "Law". Each node represents a tag, and edges indicate that these tags
frequently
appear together within the same infrastructure.
Please note that it is interactive. Try dragging nodes, hovering over edges, or
zooming
in and out. It's designed for exploration! Play around to surface unexpected connections or
question why
some tags might appear isolated.
Patterns (and gaps) can often emerge through movement.
Infrastructure Relationship Graph
This graph shows how research infrastructures themselves are
connected —
through
formal relationships like collaborations, host organisations, and child-parent structures.
Please note that it's an interactive graph. Click, drag, zoom, spotlight a single
infrastructre to
trace its collaborations and lineage, or reset
to explore the broader network.
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