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
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
Scientists reveal 700-year-old cave’s hidden secrets
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Crossed Lines - A crowdsourced exhibition capturing the history of the telephone in literature
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Festival celebrates 100 years since the release of iconic feminist magazine
Thu 05 Nov 2020
What's coming up
31
Mar
WRAP Live! In conversation with Ashley Hickson-Lovence
Don't miss our next WRAP Live! online event with author Ashley Hickson-Lovence. He'll be joining Becky Cullen – poet, researcher and WRAP Programme Manager to talk about inspiring reluctant readers, his route into writing, and his explosive debut novel The 392. Completely free and open to all!
Don't miss our next WRAP Live! online event with author Ashley Hickson-Lovence. He'll be joining Becky Cullen – poet, researcher and WRAP Programme Manager to talk about inspiring reluctant readers, his route into writing, and his explosive debut novel The 392. Completely free and open to all!
09
Feb
Workhouse Lives: Gossip and the workhouse with Caroline Walton (Nottingham Trent University)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
09
Mar
Workhouse Lives: Clothing and the workhouse with Peter Jones (Leicester University)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
13
Apr
Workhouse Lives: Workhouse scandals with Carol Beardmore (De Montford University)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
11
May
Workhouse Lives: Writing in the workhouse with Natalie Carter (Leicester University)
Online event, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham,
Our Research Groups and Centres
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 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).
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 Public History, Heritage and Memory
Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory
The Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory provides a lively hub for researchers, teachers, practitioners and the public in the connected areas of identity; representation and memorialisation; internationally significant, community-driven and regional history; and museum and heritage management.
Our latest publications
'The novelist … must write about politics': Mary Agnes Hamilton and the politics of modern fiction
Zivilgesellschaft und Erinnerungspolitik in Deutschland seit 1945
Weight stigma in Britain: the linguistic representation of obesity in newspapers
Digital competence is not enough – we need to instil the values of digital citizenship
Making external examining fit for the future
Navigating assessed coursework to build and validate professional identities: the experiences of fifteen international students in the UK
Media Studies are ranked in the UK’s Top 5 for student satisfaction (NSS 2019).
Journalism and philosophy courses are ranked in the UK top 10 (Guardian League Tables 2020)
Our communication and media studies courses are in the UK's Top 25 (Complete University Guide 2020)




