About the School

The School of Humanities and Cultural Industries offers a wide range of courses from Foundation Degrees to PhDs.

We offer excellent teaching and a friendly and supportive environment in which to study.

Current Highlights

The School is home to one of the UK's leading Creative Writing departments, with an international reputation for its successful postgraduate programmes. The School is home to a distinguished team of creative writing practitioner researchers, including MAN Booker, Whitbread, and TS Eliot prize nominees. Our postgraduate writing courses will soon be taught in the gracious and visually stunning surroundings of Corsham Court, the University's new Graduate Studies and Research Centre where students will enjoy the highest quality of teaching in a relaxed and supportive learning environment.

The English and Cultural Studies Department provides a home for editorial work on the leading journals Green Letters, Gothic Studies and Irish Studies Review. Knowledge transfer and other projects with creative and cultural industry partners and UK and International university partners are a growing feature of our work: in 2007/2008 Professor Paul Edwards led an AHRC funded project with the National Portrait Gallery and in 2010 he will curate a major exhibition Lewis's work in Madrid.

Our thriving FD in Publishing is helping Bath's Little Theatre Cinema promote its programme via social network site Twitter.

The Department of Humanities is working with leading Heritage organisation in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath to develop new ways of thinking about the care of valuable archive collections.

The Department of Film and Media Production is working with leading TV company Endemol to film Liquid Soap, a student devised soap opera set in a University toilet block.

The School is coordinating the University's contribution to the cultural Olympiad celebrations and we are working with partners in Bath to develop a festival of light to celebrate the Olympics and Paralympics as part of the South West's RELAYS programme.