School of Humanities

With a thriving research culture that informs courses at all levels, our humanities programme at Brighton seeks to examine the world that human beings have created for themselves.

Courses in this school cover three subject areas:

  • literature, linguistics and language
  • history of art and design
  • humanities.

The former is based at our Falmer campus and the latter two are based at our Pavilion Parade building in the centre of Brighton.

We look rigorously into politics, philosophy, history and the cultures that people develop through their literature, religion and communication and aim to create an academically rewarding, encouraging and enlivening environment.

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Undergraduate courses

City campus

Falmer campus

Postgraduate courses

City campus

Falmer campus

Postgraduate research degrees

Find out about our research subjects.

News and events

Hacks from Literature student

Hacks from Literature student

English Literature student and online ambassador Misti has written a series of hacks that she has found useful during her time on the course.
Hidden from History: The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals talk

Hidden from History: The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals talk

Holocaust Memorial Day is being marked with a talk by a University of Brighton student on the thousands of homosexuals murdered by the Nazis.
BBC Bitesize interview with Creative Writing lecturer about original ideas and how to find them

BBC Bitesize interview with Creative Writing lecturer about original ideas and how to find them

Is there such a thing as an original idea?
Creative Writing lecturer celebrates debut novel

Creative Writing lecturer celebrates debut novel

The Nacullians by Craig Jordan-Baker is a dark comedy that charts the tensions and traumas of one family and their relationship with the city they inhabit and is published in May this year.

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Collections

Design Archives

The University of Brighton Design Archives is based at our Grand Parade building. It is an internationally significant research base with a curatorial team that initiates and promotes collaborative activity through a programme of projects. It focuses on British design and global design organisations in the twentieth century, welcoming scholars and students from many academic disciplines researching the designed environment, the design profession and design practice.

Visit the Design Archives website.

Design Archives and student

Dress History Teaching Collection 

The aim of the Dress History Teaching Collection, held in our Pavilion Parade building, is to offer all students and staff at the University of Brighton direct access to closely examine and photograph historical and world fabrics and garments while encouraging the use of the collection within material culture research.

Visit the Dress History Teaching Collection website.

Dress collection sample

Research and enterprise 

Centre for applied philosophy, politics and ethics

Centre for Design History

Centre for memory, narrative and histories

Centre for spatial, environmental and cultural politics

Performance and communities

General enquiries

School of Humanities (Falmer)
University of Brighton
Checkland Building
Falmer
BN1 9PH

School of Humanities (Pavilion Parade)
University of Brighton
10-11 Pavilion Parade
Brighton
BN2 1RA

Phone: +44 (0) 1273 643905
Email: humanities@brighton.ac.uk

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