Current research
Research Aims
The British Institute of Persian Studies exists primarily to promote Iranian studies in the United Kingdom. In this endeavour it places great emphasis on offering young researchers direct experience of Iran, and it seeks to build confidence in the long-term potential for research in Iran through the use of its purpose-built Institute and its diverse facilities, in Tehran. It works primarily within the boundaries of modern Iran but also in neighbouring countries with Persian cultural traditions, whether they are bound linguistically to Iran or whether they border the Caspian Sea or the Persian Gulf. All fields of research within the humanities, social and natural sciences are considered for publication in the BIPS journal Iran.
Sponsored research
- Socio-economic transformations in the later prehistory of Iran
- Kingship in Persian cultural history
- History, myth and literature in modern Iran
- Sasanian Coins
- An imperial frontier and its landscape: the Gorgan and Tammisha Walls in northeast Iran
- Socio-economic developments in south-west Iran during the fourth millenium BCE
- Islamic fundamentalism and the post-revolutionary visual arts in Iran
- Zurkhaneh: between tradition and change
- Bakhtiari Cemeteries
- The Shahnama Project
- Socio-economic transformations in the Tehran Plain