The Centre brings disconnected initiatives on place and on memory together for the first time at scale, to study subtle relations between these compelling aspects of human nature. It sets humanities and social science research at the heart of the sciences of place and memory: departing decisively from standard patchy implementations of interdisciplinary practice, the six workstreams enact deep and enduring joint research, as new groups with skills spanning the arts, the social sciences, and the cognitive neurosciences devote attention together to specific focused problems. Places can have visceral power to evoke past experience. Some memories and emotions only arise when we are back in a familiar place. Yet disorientation is pervasive, in space and time. People get lost, even with GPS devices: the past slips away, or returns with unsettling force. What is it to find ourselves, to feel at home in our lands, our places, and our time? The Centre builds a new, multistranded theory of place and memory.