School of Arts and Humanities
Our future is important
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
Industry Placement Awards celebrate incredible achievements of NTU students and placement providers
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Language and Memory conference
Tue 20 Dec 2022
History students hear from Holocaust and Rwandan genocide survivors
Tue 20 Dec 2022
NTU alum and Aphasia Nottingham founder wins award
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Researchers to examine and digitise rare fifteenth century royal genealogical roll
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Roundtable: Engaging with Language as Heritage
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Our Research Groups and Centres
Postcolonial Studies Centre
Postcolonial Studies Centre
A leading international hub for critical thought around the legacies of social disenfranchisement, colonialism, neocolonialism and the potential for postcolonial thought to contest marginality and social exclusion.
Critical Poetics Research Group
Critical Poetics Research Group
Established in 2015, Critical Poetics is an interdisciplinary research group that seeks to stimulate debate, collaboration and innovation among scholars and practitioners whose work is concerned with creative and critical theory and practice
Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group
Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group
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).
Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Increasing the understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation and impact of religion and conflict, from the medieval period into the early nineteenth century.
Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory
Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory
Covering all research concerned with the ways in which the past is made relevant in the present. Including representations of history, our common heritage or modes of individual and collective remembrance.
Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
Providing a focus for research that theorises and analyses how the representation, practice and experience of difference produces inequality and how they inform discriminatory practices and policies.
Our latest publications
Affordances at the intersection of museums and videogames: a critical examination of the potential application of videogames as museum interpretation
Abjection, power, and reappropriation: the difficult conceptualisation of women’s sexual pain In France and England
In their own write: contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900
Reading Freeman again, anew
Underground influence: Sylvia Townsend Warner's pastiche of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
New perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: reading with and against the grain
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)
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