Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dean of Faculty Professor Tony McEnery
Deputy Dean and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies
Professor Emma Rose
Associate Dean for Resources Professor Chris May
Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Professor Colin Rogers
Number of Postgraduate Students 475 research 400 taught
Departments Applied Social Science
Contemporary Arts: Art, Design, Film and New Media, Music, Music Technology, Theatre Studies Educational Research English and Creative Writing European Languages and Cultures Gender and Women’s Studies (Centre for) History Law
Linguistics and English Language North West Regional Studies (Centre for) Politics, Philosophy, Religion Ruskin Library and Research Centre Science Studies (Centre for) Sociology
The Faculty invests more than £2million per annum to fund postgraduate studentships and awards. The Faculty generates annually over £5million in externally funded income including grants from the AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, EPS, MRC, NATO, European Union, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, British Council, Royal Society, Nuffield Foundation, Soros Research Fund, Wellcome Trust, Health and Safety Executive, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, Department of Education and Skills and various commercial sponsors.
Lancaster is one of the leading research universities in Britain and is in the top group of universities receiving research grants from the UK Economic and Social Research Council and other funding agencies.
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences provides a home to many internationally renowned scholars and to a number of major research centres including the Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, the Literacy Research Centre, the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, the Centre for Mobilities Research, the Centre for Science Studies, the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, the Ruskin Centre and the Wordsworth Centre.
One of the distinctive features of the Faculty’s research and teaching culture is its emphasis on interdisciplinari- ty. This is reflected in the range of postgraduate degree schemes on offer at MA and PhD level, which provide students with the opportunity to study a subject in depth at an advanced level and to access expert teaching and research support in a number of departments across the Faculty.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has an international reputation for research excellence. In the 2008 RAE at least 85% of research activity in most of the Faculty’s departments was of an international standard. Sociology was ranked fifth in the UK for research quality. This result demonstrates the department’s enduring research excellence. Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) was ranked in the UK’s top 3. This confirms the world-leading status of LICA’s research.
The Faculty’s commitment to the development of skills and training for employability is reinforced by the provision of study orientated to research and other schemes which are vocational. All departments in the Faculty offer one or more Masters programmes, which may be undertaken on a full- or part-time basis. These courses are complete in themselves, but may also be used as a valuable stepping stone to PhD study. Many departments offer MRes schemes accredited by the ESRC as part of its ‘1+3’ funding scheme 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, while colleagues in the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (which comprises Art, Design, Film and New Media, Music, Music Technology and Theatre Studies) and in the Creative Writing Programme can also support students undertaking practice-based research.
The Faculty’s Research Training Programme supports research students through free access to modules that
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