Here for the epic thinkers!
The School of Arts and Humanities is a diverse, supportive and collaborative community in which to innovate, explore and create. Our curiosity about language, histories and global cultures drives our insight and learning and it’s the place to develop your intellectual and practical skills.
Our innovative courses are built on this ethos, adding value to employability, providing an superlative student experience and embracing international opportunities. Fields of study for undergraduates range from classics such as English, philosophy and history to linguistics, global studies, and the latest media, communications and journalism degrees - offering the perfect combination of theory and practice. They are academically rigorous and underpinned by the latest research.
Beyond the classroom there’s work experience, external projects, volunteering, field trips, year abroad and international exchange - truly immersive experiences.
We’ve developed postgraduate courses that advance and expand learning. There’s hands-on training in collaboration with industry partners for taught courses and guidance, support and inspiration to develop research. From progressing the study of English, history, philosophy and linguistics, to developing professional skills for careers in journalism, museum and heritage development, creative writing and English Language Teaching – we turn passions into professional success.
Underpinning this is the School’s long and rich history of producing internationally excellent and world-leading research. Our research explores who we are, where we come from and where we want to go, as individuals and as a society. Through inquiry, critical reflection, creative interventions and dialogue, we deepen our understanding of how we inhabit and make sense of the world.
Latest News
Hidden stories of mental health care in Nottinghamshire revealed by new online exhibition
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Rory Waterman travels to Bucheon, South Korea for creative residency
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Expert Blog: Understanding the Communications surrounding the Coronavirus Vaccine
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Journalism students raise money for children in crisis charity after interview training
Tue 05 Jan 2021
NTU’s commitment to sexual violence prevention recognised with student support award
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Researchers of NTU: Patricia Francis
Tue 24 Nov 2020
What's coming up
01
Oct
Black History Month at NTU
We’ve planned a special season of events and activities not just in October, but throughout this whole academic year to celebrate the important black historical figures who helped make Britain what it is today.
We’ve planned a special season of events and activities not just in October, but throughout this whole academic year to celebrate the important black historical figures who helped make Britain what it is today.
21
Apr
Hero’s Journey Creative Writing Workshop with Eve Makis and Anthony Cropper *fully booked*
05
May
New Poetry Society: Henry Normal with Bridie Squires
Metronome, Huntingdon Street, Nottingham, NG1 1AP
11
May
Workhouse Lives: Writing in the workhouse with Natalie Carter (Leicester University)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
08
Jun
Workhouse Lives: Work in the workhouse with Lewis Darwen (University of Roehampton)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
Our Research Groups and Centres
ReFrance: Contemporary French Studies
ReFrance: Contemporary French Studies
This is a centre for the study of the processes of cultural change, intellectual and political debates, social trends and tendencies, activisms, struggles and everyday contexts that inform contemporary France.
Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS)
Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS)
The Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS), which was established in 2002, exists to facilitate, promote and disseminate scholarly research on travel writing and its contexts, without restriction of period, locus, or type of travel writing.
Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict
The centre for the study of religion and conflict aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods.
Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group
Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group
Co-directed by Dr Catherine Clay and Professor Andrew Thacker, the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG) aims to develop work on the study of modern periodicals and print culture (from the nineteenth century to the present).
Postcolonial Studies Centre
Postcolonial Studies Centre
The Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU, established in 2000, is a leading cross-disciplinary, international hub for critical research on the legacies of colonialism. The PSC is directed by Dr Jenni Ramone and Dr Nicole Thiara.
Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory
Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory
The Centre covers all research broadly concerned with the ways in which the past is made relevant in the present – whether through public facing representations of history, the shaping and management of our common heritage or the myriad modes of individual and collective remembrance.
Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
The Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference provides a focus for research that theorises and analyses how the representation, practice and experience of difference produce inequality. Research in the Centre will not only explore how such representations, practices and experiences have been both contested and reproduced, but also how they inform discriminatory practices and policies.
Our latest publications
From Green Hell to grey heritage: ecologies of colour in the penal colony
Corpus approaches to forensic linguistics
Prospects for the study of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
'Not the lingo of Fleet Street': Davies and periodical culture
Murder as news. An investigation into homicide as story content in BBC regional television news output
How do British teenagers aged 16-18 receive and interpret alcohol messages portrayed in the British soap opera EastEnders?
Our linguistics courses are ranked 3rd in the UK for student satisfaction (NSS 2020)
Journalism, linguistics and philosophy courses are ranked in the UK top 20 (Guardian League Tables 2021)
Our communication and media studies, and linguistics courses are in the UK's Top 25 (Complete University Guide 2021)
Our Philosophy courses are ranked 9th in the UK for student satisfaction (NSS 2020)




