Arts and Humanities
Research in the Arts and Humanities at Reading spans a broad range of disciplines located within four Schools. Scholarly, applied and practice-led research attracts funding from a broad range of sources to support individual research as well as that carried out by project teams.
Cross-School and inter-disciplinary research exists in Research Centres and Groups that bring different perspectives to shared areas of interest. The Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, the Early Modern Research Centre, the Centre for International Research in Childhood, and the Centre for Television Drama Studies are among the most established.
In some areas research is supported by the University’s outstanding and renowned collections and archives. The Beckett Archive, currently being expanded with major acquisitions, is the largest in the world; the Publishing Archives and the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design collections are unique and support a number of significant research projects.
You can find out more about research across the Faculty and about Research Centres and Groups in Arts and Humanities by using the links to the research pages of the discipline areas listed below.
School of Arts and Communication
School of Literature and Languages
School of Humanities
Further Humanities research is undertaken in Archaeology, Law and Politics.
Facts and figures
| Research income 2010/111 | £1,009,000 |
| 'Teaching and Research' staff2 | 125 |
| Research only staff3 | 10 |
| Research students4 | 125 |
1Source: University of Reading/Finance Department. Please note that this is income from externally funded grants and contracts and excludes HEFCE research funding. All figures rounded to the nearest £1000.
2Source: University of Reading (Trent), November 2011. Academic staff FTE whose contract covers 'Teaching and Research' (HESA academic employment function). All figures are rounded to the nearest 5 or 10.
3Source: University of Reading (Trent), November 2011. Academic staff FTE whose contract covers 'Research only' (HESA academic employment function). All figures are rounded to the nearest 5 or 10.
4Source: University of Reading (RISIS), 1 December 2011. Headcount of full fee liable doctoral students. All figures rounded to the nearest 5 or 10.
