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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Graduate study with us is a demanding, exhilarating and, frequently, life-changing experience. There are many opportunities for cross-faculty, interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Professor Morag Shiach, Vice-Principal and Executive Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences highlights for postgraduate students

1,843 postgraduate students, 500 staff.
Annual turnover of £55m with a research grant of over £4m.
In national university guides for 2011, seven disciplines in the Faculty are judged to be in the top ten in the UK.
In the last Research Assessment Exercise, nine Faculty research areas (out of 13) were judged to be in the top ten nationally on the basis of the percentage of 4* and 3* grades, with three coming top in their discipline.
In the National Student Survey 2011, over half of the Faculty’s subject areas had overall student satisfaction ratings of more than 90 per cent.
We have been accredited as an Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Centre in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London: over the next five years 50 PhD students at the two Colleges will be fully funded for their fees and living costs.
We have been awarded £2.9m by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the training and supervision of postgraduates.
In 2011, we opened the stunning Arts 2 Building, a £21m development housing the School of History and a film and drama studio.

Academic schools in the Faculty

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is made up of eight schools as follows:

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