This vibrant and diverse School is home to our traditional humanities disciplines - history, classics, philosophy and religious studies - as well as our English and creative writing programmes and criminology, sociology and human rights.

We aim to provide you with a transformative experience through outstanding teaching, innovative and career focused modules, personal tutoring and a strong sense of community. All our undergraduate courses offer an optional placement year and a range of new modules with a vocational focus have been added to some programmes. All are designed to equip you with valuable skills that are transferable to a range of careers.

We offer a strong and sustainable research environment that nurtures and supports world leading research, productive and exciting collaborations, and develops risk-taking academic research leaders. Our research is relevant to the wider world, and we develop its impact through partnerships with community organisations, festivals, museums and the general public.

Latest from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

No Time to Spy - To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the James Bond films, we welcomed current and prospective students to campus for bitesize talks from lecturers and PhD students; a display of espionage and spycraft materials from our partners in The National Archives; a film screening of the James Bond anniversary film Skyfall in our on-campus cinema; as well as food, drinks, music, and mingling.

Holocaust Memorial Day - On 27th January, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted hundreds of 6th form students on Digby Stuart College to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of workshops, interactive seminars, poetry readings, and talks around the official theme: “ordinary people”.