Our Faculty offers a vibrant and stimulating learning environment for staff and students alike. We play a vital role in the wider university through a distinctive agenda around research and teaching: we explore the very essence of life – the past and present condition of humanity, and its possible and probable futures.
 
We create opportunities for ground-breaking exploration, working closely with a wide range of colleagues in other Faculties across the world, and with our regional partners. We have specific thematic interests in global perspectives, digital creativity and creative health, gender and identity, creative and cultural industries and heritage, as well as global justice and social responsibility.
 
Through our cutting-edge interdisciplinary teaching and research, we aim to transform the lives of our students, and this work has a tangible cultural legacy which is internationally significant. The Faculty’s global reputation helped make Norwich England’s first UNESCO City of Literature and it attracts writers of all kinds from around the globe.
 
Our Faculty is a place that hones creative excellence – proud UEA graduate and Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is testament to that – but it is also one that provides our graduates with the skills to prosper across many professions. Our drama and multi-media studios, historical archives and collections, translation centre, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art – these are the labs in which discoveries are made and careers launched. In addition, we have an innovative city-centre facility – Broadcast House – which contains a newsroom and broadcast gallery as well as recording studios and other learning spaces.
 
As we face the future, our intention is for our curriculum to become ever more closely aligned with the latest developments in industry, meeting student expectations in a changing HE market in the UK and internationally and supporting the success of our graduates.
 
As a sign of our commitment to student success, we have created something that very few Arts and Humanities faculties in the UK have: an industry advisory board.
 
Catherine Richardson
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Arts & Humanities