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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/
Profile
Dean of Faculty
Professor Tony McEnery
Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise
Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies
Professor Emma Rose
Number of Postgraduate Students
475 research
400 taught
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences provides a home to many
Departments
internationally renowned scholars and to a number of major research
Applied Social Science
centres including the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of
Contemporary Arts (Lancaster Institute for the)
Genomics, the Literacy Research Centre, the Centre for Gender and
Women’s Studies, the Centre for Mobilities Research, the Centre for
Educational Research
Science Studies, the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change,
English and Creative Writing
the Ruskin Centre and the Wordsworth Centre. The Faculty also
European Languages and Cultures
provides a home to the Institute for Advanced Studies, a major joint
Gender and Women’s Studies (Centre for) venture with the Management School post-doctoral level research on
History a range of cutting edge, interdisciplinary topics.
Law
Linguistics and English Language
One of the distinctive features of the Faculty’s research and teaching
Media, Film and Cultural Studies
culture is its emphasis on interdisciplinarity. This is reflected in the
range of postgraduate degree schemes on offer at MA and PhD
North West Regional Studies (Centre for)
level, which provide students with the opportunity to study a subject
Philosophy
in depth at an advanced level and to access expert teaching and
Politics and International Relations
research support in a number of departments across the Faculty.
Religious Studies
Ruskin Library and Research Centre The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has an international
Science Studies (Centre for)
reputation for research excellence. In the 2008 RAE at least 85% of
Sociology
research activity in most of the Faculty's departments was of an
international standard. Sociology was ranked fifth in the UK for
The Faculty generates annually over £5million in
research quality. This result demonstrates the department's enduring
externally funded income including grants from the
research excellence. Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
(LICA) was ranked joint first in the UK. This confirms the world-
AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, EPS, MRC, NATO, European
leading status of LICA's research.
Union, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, British
Council, Royal Society, Nuffield Foundation, Soros
The Faculty’s commitment to the development of skills and training
Research Fund, Wellcome Trust, Health and Safety
for employability is reinforced by the provision of study orientated to
Executive, Department of Environment, Transport and
research and other schemes which are vocational.
the Regions, Department of Education and Skills and
various commercial sponsors.
All departments in the Faculty offer one or more Masters
programmes, which may be undertaken on a full- or part-time basis.
Lancaster is one of the leading research universities in These courses are complete in themselves, but may also be used as a
Britain and is in the top group of universities receiving valuable stepping stone to PhD study. Many departments offer MRes
research grants from the UK Economic and Social
schemes accredited by the ESRC as part of its ‘1+3’ funding scheme
Research Council and other funding agencies.
and a number of departments also offer more vocational MA
courses, for example in Applied Research and Consultancy, Creative
Writing, Adult Literacy and Numeracy, and Social Work.
At PhD level, the Faculty offers supervision in all departments. In
addition to the traditional UK-style PhD, two departments
(Educational Research and Linguistics and English Language) offer
professional doctorates that comprise a structured programme of
coursework and assessment leading toward presentation of a thesis,
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