Newcastle University

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research centres, groups and institutes of the Faculty

Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor - Professor Charles Harvey
Research Dean - Professor Gerard Docherty

Research Institutes

• Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal
• Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice

Research Centres

• E.G. West Centre for the Study of Market Solutions in Education
• Research Centre in Film and Digital Media
• Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
• Centre for the History of Medicine
• Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and enterprise (KITE)
• Centre for Learning and Teaching(CfLaT)
• Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS)
• Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA)
• Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS)
• Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS)

Research Groups

• Americas Research Group
• Childhood Cultures Research Group
• Early Modern Studies @ Newcastle
• Linguistics and Language Sciences @ Newcastle
• Newcastle Human Rights Research Group
• Popular Music Research Network
• Postcolonial Research Network
• Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE)

• Archaeology
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Material Culture and Historic Periods
  • Bodies and Identity
    
• Architecture and Built Environment
  • Tectonic Cultures Research Group
  • Urban Design and Landscape
  • Culture Lab
• Art and Design
  • Material and Process
  • Site, Curating and Exhibition
  • Digital Art, Digital Cultur
• Business and Management Studies
  • Innovation Systems, Enterprise and Development
• Classics Ancient History, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
  • Ancient Medicine
  • Northern Centre for the History of Medicine
• Education
  • CfLaT
  • E G West
• English Language and Literature
  • Renaissance in Early Modern Literature and Culture
  • Eighteenth-Century and Romantic-Era Studies
  • Modern and Contemporary Literature
  • Film in Digital Media
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Children’s Literature
  • Creative Writing
•  French
  • Linguistics
  • Film
  • Literary Studies
  • Area Studies in Popular Culture
• Geography and Environmental Studies
  • New Economic Geographies (NEG)
• German
  • Medieval Studies
  • Linguistics
  • (Modern) Literature
• History
  • The Americas
  • The History of Medicine
• Iberian and Latin American Languages
  • Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
  • History, Polities and Culture
  • Linguistics
  • Film
• Law
  • Environmental Regulation Research
  • Human Rights Group
• Linguistics
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Analytic and Theoretical Linguistics
  • Clinical Linguistics – Speech and Language Disorder
• Music
  • Cultural Musicology
  • Creative Practice
• Politics and International Studies
  • Political Philosophy
  • International Politics
  • Governance and Political Organisations
  • IRES
• Sociology
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Identities
  • Contemporary Social Transformation
• Town and Country Planning
  • GURU
  • CREAM
  • REW
  • Urban Design and Landscape