The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) has played a key role in the success of Queen Mary University of London over the past ten years. HSS has combined research excellence with a strong commitment to growth, innovation and diversity in its educational activities. Public engagement, partnerships, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the generation of research with broad and compelling public benefits have all been central to the Faculty’s work.
Our academic schools work together effectively, generating excellent research, teaching and learning opportunities across the humanities and social sciences. Altogether there are over 7,300 students and 660 staff across the Faculty, with many inter-departmental links.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is marked by some outstanding successes – independently confirmed by impressive rankings. In the Guardian University Guide 2015, five disciplines in the Faculty were judged to be in the UK top ten. We offer degrees in a wide range of disciplines – from commercial law and politics, to film studies and literature.
Within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences we believe that collaborating with our students and working together as partners allows us to create an environment in which they can reach their full potential. We have invested in developing a wide range of modules linked to world-leading research to support our students in gaining a rich perspective. We aim to build on student talent and help students to develop transferrable and interpersonal skills by actively involving students in university life.
Our students also made clear that they felt that teaching staff were available to them when needed and they find their course intellectually stimulating, demonstrating how student experience and support is at the forefront of our delivery and teaching ethos.
In the United Kingdom's last Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment of the quality of research the Faculty did exceptionally well, and contributed strongly to Queen Mary University of London's overall achievement. A number of research areas were assessed as having very high-quality research publications and impact.
We also have an impressive track record of attracting funding. Our research grant funding is around £7 million annually, and more than £1million is invested in scholarships for research students. Most recently the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, along with seven other London HEIs, has secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Doctoral Training Partnership. The LAHP will fully fund 90 PhD studentships per year over the next five years across the partner universities. QMUL has been an associate partner of the LAHP for the last four years.
To add to our recent success, we have been awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships (QMUL-LTDS) programme on “Mobile People”. Co-directed by Professors Engin Isin and Kimberley Hutchings QMUL-LTDS will involve 21 PhD research projects (2018-2023) concerned with how the world is being dynamically constituted by mobile people in active and novel ways and how this affects fundamental social and political institutions.
Moreover, together with Kings College London and Imperial College, we are an accredited ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The DTP funds over 50 students per year from 2017-18. We are expanding inter-disciplinary research activity through a Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS)which aspires to be an ideas generating hub for research across the Faculty.
Our schools and departments:
Vice-Principal: Professor Frances Bowen
Deputy Vice-Principal: Professor Daniel Todman
Executive Assistant to Vice-Principal: Lada Hron
Faculty Director of Operations: Lucie Langley Deputy Director of Operations: Lorna Ireland
Faculty Administrative Officer: June Ryde
Faculty Administrative Manager: Kathryn Keith O'Sullivan
Faculty Operations and Resources Manager: Marlon GomesDean for Education: Elizabeth Gillow
Deputy Dean for Education (Regulation and Employability) Dr Javier Sajura
Deputy Dean for Education (Teaching Excellence Framework and Student Experience) Dr Rachel Male
Dean for Research: Professor Adrian Armstrong
Deputy Dean for Research (Impact):
Deputy Dean for PGR: Dr Costanza Russo
Director Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS): Professor Kate Malleson
IHSS Administrator: Jolanta Stanulionyte
Head of Faculty Education and Student Experience: Roussel De Carvalho
Faculty Education and Quality Manager:
Faculty Student Engagement and Support Manager: Elliott Welch Student Engagement and Support officer: Jack Juckes
Faculty Interdisciplinary Programme Manager: Matthew Horsfield
Programme and Partnership Manager (Digital Programmes): Josephine McGreevySKETCH Project Lead: Kit Massmann; SKETCH Coordinator: Evie Edwards
Placements Managers:School of Business and Management: Sabien FaberSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Susan EldinFaculty Digital Learning Manager: Richard Chantler; Digital Learning Advisers: Tatiana Costa; Linda O'Sullivan
Faculty Strategic Research Manager: Alexandra Nowosiad Senior Research Managers: Sarah Saines, Paul Giuliani, Sarah Jane Smith
Faculty Research Managers: Catherine Norman, Silke Boettcher, Ryan Shand, Huw Jones, Amerisida Dibra, Monira Begum
Faculty Senior Partnerships Manager (Commercial & Partner Research, Consultancy) Kathy Samuel
Faculty Research Officers: Isabella D'Adamo, Alicia Barnes, Shilpi BibiFaculty Marketing Manager: Vicky Kwaku
Faculty Communications Manager: Morgan Williams; Faculty Communications Officer: James Cleeton
Mile End Institute Manager: Thomas Chidwick
Faculty IT Relationship Manager: Sophia Eglin
Faculty Health and Safety Manager: Ross Baker
HSS Senior Finance Partner: Hannah Drinkwater; HSS Finance Partner: Joe Hanson-Quaye
HSS Strategic HR Partner: Sonia Sookhan
HSS Planning Partner: Tom Norton
Faculty Lead Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: TBC
Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer: Katharina Smith-Müller
Heads of Schools
School of History: Professor Emma Griffin School of English and Drama: Professor Scott McCrackenSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Professor Kathryn RichardsonSchool of Politics and International Relations: Dr Martin CowardSchool of Geography: Professor Kavita DataSchool of Economics and Finance: Professor Jason Sturgess Department of Law: Professor Michael HarkerCentre for Commercial Law Studies: Professor Ioannis Kokkoris School of Business and Management: Professor Mike Noon
School Managers
School of History: Emma YatesSchool of English and Drama: Lara Fothergill School of Languages, Linguistics and Film: Jill EvansSchool of Politics and International Relations: Norman McBreenSchool of Geography: Andrew LovelandSchool of Economics and Finance: Michelle RestarickSchool of Business and Management: Ashley ArnoldDepartment of Law: Luke BancroftCentre for Commercial Law Studies: Michelle Henderson