Research - KOMBAT - Challenge Yourself

Hip hop x Science

We're passionate about using research to inform the way we design, build and evaluate our work. The mission to deliver creative skills for young people is a big one. To give us the best chance of success, we're working with educators, AI specialists, neuroscientists, linguists and young people . Below is some of the research that has inspired us.

Literacy and language learning 

Work we've used to consider the foundations of issues such as language development, phonological awareness and vocabulary acquisition. More

Digital health and well-being

This is the core of our purpose. To use hip hop as a platform to improve well-being. We're lucky that some of the world's leading researchers in the field are partners we're proud to work alongside. More.

Computational linguistics

Papers and articles that have helped us think about analysing hip hop lyrics and classifying rhymes computationally. More

Language and music

Research around music and memory, Mondegreens and more.

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