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.

Study with us

Undergraduate courses

City campus

Falmer campus

Postgraduate courses

City campus

Falmer campus

Postgraduate research degrees

Find out about our research subjects.

News and events

Wondering if studying the arts and humanities is vocational enough? New British Academy report shows the benefits

Wondering if studying the arts and humanities is vocational enough? New British Academy report shows the benefits

Qualified for the Future (May 2020) demonstrates the tangible benefits of skills developed in the arts, humanities and social sciences to the UK workforce, economy and society, not only now but in the future.
Change Studentship award for BAME curating applicants returns

Change Studentship award for BAME curating applicants returns

The Change Studentship will be awarded to a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) Curating Collections and Heritage MA applicant.
Interview with lecturer Christian Høgsbjerg about his Haitian Revolutionary Studies

Interview with lecturer Christian Høgsbjerg about his Haitian Revolutionary Studies

Christian teaches history and politics in our Humanities department and is co-author of the book Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions – read his recent interview with The Public Archive.
Got questions before you start at Brighton?

Got questions before you start at Brighton?

We have put together the most frequently asked questions from our recent School of Humanities online Q&A.

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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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