Academic Colleges

Three of our Academic Colleges have research interests in the Arts and Humanities:

• + College of Humanities
• + College of Life and Environmental Sciences
• + College of Social Sciences and International Studies

Research Beacon Areas

Researchers in the Arts and Humanities contribute to four of our major interdisciplinary research initiatives:

• + Climate change and sustainable futures
• + Middle Eastern and Islamic studies
• + Migration and identity

Research topics A-H

Our Departments, Centres and Institutes cover a wide range of Arts and Humanities subjects:

• + Advanced International Studies
• + Arab and Islamic Studies
• + Archaeology
• + Biblical Studies
• + Business History
• + Christian Church
• + Classics and Ancient History
• + Cornish Studies
• + Creative Writing and Arts
• + Drama
• + Early Modern Studies
• + Eighteenth-Century Narrative Research
• + Elections, Media and Parties
• + English
• + Esotericism
• + Ethno-Political Studies
• + European Governance
• + European Legal Studies
• + Film Studies
• + Foreign Language Centre
• + French
• + Genomics in Society (EGENIS)
• + Geography
• + German
• + Hellenistic and Romano-Greek Culture
• + Hispanic Studies
• + History
• + History of Cinema and Popular Culture
• + History of Performance

Research topics I-Z

• + Intercultural Performance Practice
• + Intermedia
• + International Studies
• + Italian
• + Kurdish Studies
• + Law
• + Lifelong Learning
• + Literatures of identity, place and sustainability
• + Maritime Historical Studies
• + Medical History
• + Medieval Studies
• + Mediterranean Studies
• + Modern Languages
• + Persian and Iranian Studies
• + Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• + Politics
• + Regulatory Governance
• + Rural Policy Studies
• + Russian
• + Sexuality and Gender in Europe
• + Sociology and Philosophy
• + South West Writing
• + Spanish
• + Theology
• + Turkish Studies
• + Victorian Studies
• + War, State and Society