The ICPS is a multilingual forum - internationalist in spirit, interdisciplinary in method - for the comparative treatment of ideas, issues and problems related to the study of the colonial past and to the cultures of the contemporary postcolonial world.

It plays a key role in expanding each of these dynamic and rapidly developing research fields. Its key objectives are to re-assess colonial histories, in all their complexity and diversity, and to gauge their continuing impact upon our globalised world.

Its founding constituent disciplines are English, History, Modern Languages and Cultures and Theology and Religious Studies but it encompasses many further disciplines. It is affiliated with the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), where many of its workshops and seminars take place.

Numerous scholars from across the University are involved in the Institute's core activities, such as collaborative research, interdisciplinary research and postgraduate teaching.  See our People section and the list of other Staff affiliated with the Institute.

• Director - Prof Graham Huggan (English)
• Deputy Director - Dr Manuel Barcia (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)