This vibrant and diverse School is home to our traditional humanities disciplines - history, classics, philosophy and religious studies - as well as our English and creative writing programmes and criminology, sociology and human rights.
We aim to provide you with a transformative experience through outstanding teaching, innovative and career focused modules, personal tutoring and a strong sense of community. All our undergraduate courses offer an optional placement year and a range of new modules with a vocational focus have been added to some programmes. All are designed to equip you with valuable skills that are transferable to a range of careers.
We offer a strong and sustainable research environment that nurtures and supports world leading research, productive and exciting collaborations, and develops risk-taking academic research leaders. Our research is relevant to the wider world, and we develop its impact through partnerships with community organisations, festivals, museums and the general public.
Latest from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
No Time to Spy - To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the James Bond films, we welcomed current and prospective students to campus for bitesize talks from lecturers and PhD students; a display of espionage and spycraft materials from our partners in The National Archives; a film screening of the James Bond anniversary film Skyfall in our on-campus cinema; as well as food, drinks, music, and mingling.
Holocaust Memorial Day - On 27th January, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted hundreds of 6th form students on Digby Stuart College to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day with a series of workshops, interactive seminars, poetry readings, and talks around the official theme: “ordinary people”.
Students learn about the psychology of crime and the origins of crime fiction - “Roehampton Crime Festival”, is a festival of interactive workshops, demonstrations, and exciting talks in parallel to subject-specific taster sessions held on Wednesday 5th April. Hear from experts in Humanities and Social Science subjects from across our school and get a flavour of the various and exciting research our staff carry out, and which they bring to their teaching. Come and meet other prospective students, enjoy some lunch, and learn all about our research and teaching.
