• excellent RAE results
• impressive record of external income generation
• growing numbers of research students

• a wide range of research events including regular research seminars, to which all researchers are encouraged to contribute. Individual departments also hold their own events, including student colloquia, reading groups, research seminars and visiting speakers.

• a number of research clusters, the majority of which are engaged in cross-faculty interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and have been associated with a number of successful conferences on a variety of issues such as The New Extremism, The Music of Music Therapy and Western Esoteric Traditions.

• an energetic, active community of research students, well over 100 in total, working on a diverse range of topics including transnational crime, feminist rewritings of myth, the history of the SDP, the works of Fanny Burney, the representation of disabled people in British film and the place of gamelan music within music therapy. As well as making a full contribution to events such as the Faculty Research Seminars, our PhD students have run their own successful events, including interdisciplinary colloquia on the themes of hysteria and inheritance.

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