Here in the School we have a very distinctive approach to our academic work, at all levels of higher education. We believe in learning through doing, combining the academic with the practical through researching in the field, producing videos or writing novels.
Staff are also practitioners in their field - as poets, painters, scriptwriters, policy consultants.
The success of our students while they are with us in, for example, community arts projects or the Edinburgh Festival, and afterwards in their future careers demonstrates the positive advantages of this approach. We encourage a wide range of flexible choices and study pathways so that students can choose to study either a focused, single subject award or create a multidisciplinary award across the range of our subjects. As well as taught courses, there are many opportunities to study independently, or pursue practical research, and active learning is encouraged. Our range of subjects spreads from the creative practice of art, theatre, writing and the media, through the traditional humanities and languages, into the social sciences of sociology, psychology, social policy and criminology. Crossing the boundaries are the newer disciplines of communication, cultural and media studies.