Academic Schools, Departments, Institutes, Centres
The School is structured academically into five schools, ten departments and five centres.
During the academic year 2017-18, departments are supported by three faculties
This area of the site gives an overview of each school, department and centre, as well as the 300+ academic staff and their research interests.
Schools, Departments and Sections
Research and teaching by discipline or regions of the world.
- Anthropology and Sociology
- Arts
- Development Studies
- East Asian Languages & Cultures
- Economics
- Finance and Management
- History, Religions and Philosophies
- Interdisciplinary Studies
Foundation and Language Courses
Institutes and Regional Centres
Concentrations of research expertise drawn from across Schools and Departments, focusing on specific countries or regions of the world. Six of the regional centres and institutes are administered by the Centres and Programmes Office
Research Centres
Situated within Schools and Departments with a particular research focus
- Asian Legal Studies
- Buddhist Studies
- Colonialism, Empire and International Law
- Comparative Political Thought
- Conflict, Rights and Justice
- Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies
- Development Policy and Research
- Development, Environment and Policy
- English Studies
- Ethnographic Theory
- Financial and Management Studies
- Food Studies
- Gender Studies
- Global Finance
- Global Media and Communications
- Human Rights Law
- International Studies and Diplomacy
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
- Islamic Studies
- Jaina Studies
- Japanese Religions
- Jewish Studies
- Language Pedagogy (Archived)
- Languages of the Wider World CETL (Archived)
- Law, Environment and Development Centre
- Media and Film Studies
- Migration and Diaspora Studies
- Ottoman Studies
- Politics of Energy Security
- Taiwan Studies
- Translation Studies
- Trust Research
- Water and Development
- World Christianity
- Yoga Studies
Collaborative External Centres
Centres that are established jointly with an external institution
Faculties
During the academic year 2017-18, departments are supported by three faculties