The Academy of Mobility Humanities at Konkuk University (Director: Inseop Shin) has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for mutual cooperation with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. This renewed agreement expands the collaboration to include four departments: in addition to the Department of English, School of Social Sciences, and the Centre for Mobilities Research, the School of Arts has now newly joined the partnership.
Founded in 1964, Lancaster University is one of the UK’s leading institutions and was ranked 12th in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025, recognized for its excellence in research and education. Since the first MOU signed in 2019, followed by a renewal in 2022, the Academy of Mobility Humanities has steadily expanded academic and material exchanges with Lancaster University. The partnership has included joint research efforts, including a project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
This latest renewal not only reflects the stability and continuity of the ongoing collaboration but is also significant in that it expands the participating institutions and diversifies the fields of cooperation into humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Through this agreement, both parties aim to institutionalize the exchange of human and material resources and to promote a wide range of academic activities, such as joint research projects, academic conferences, special journal issues, and the publication of monographs. In doing so, they seek to further strengthen a global interdisciplinary research network that integrates mobility studies with humanistic inquiry.