Welcome

The School is home to five departments – Communication and Media, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, English, Geography and Environment, and International Relations, Politics and History, with a choice of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. All of our undergraduate students benefit from the opportunity to undertake a placement, study exchange internationally, or a combination of both. Students can study a language as part of their course with the University Language Centre, which is housed within our school. Our education and student experience provide memorable moments of learning. Active learning experiences, such as visits and fieldwork, are critical components of many of our degrees. After graduating, our students continue to excel in employment and further study.

Research informed teaching is central to what we do, and all our students’ learning is routed within current cutting-edge research. We are home to world-leading research centres, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC), in the Centre for Research in Social Policy CRSP and the 含羞草视频 Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience) (STEER). These are globally leading in their research outputs and impact. Highlights of our research portfolio can be found here.

Our research and teaching spans the social and environmental sciences and humanities, and we address key questions of political importance and the factors that create and can foster change. Our unique collection of departments presents opportunities to address globally important questions from a variety of perspectives, in our education and research.

When you join our School, whether as a student or a colleague, we invite you to share, create and develop our community and the many exciting opportunities that this brings.

Professor Justin Waring

Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities