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.
The Faculty 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 success.
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 has research income of over £7m. In REF 2014, across the Faculty more than 90 per cent of impact was judged to be of 4* or 3* quality. 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 part of the AHRCfunded London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP), which was recently renewed to train a further five annual cohorts of PhD students from October 2019.