Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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FASS takes lead role in cinema project

A £778,000 project, led by Dr Richard Rushton (LICA) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will see the digitisation of a special collection stored at the University library.

Online course tackles dyslexia in the language classroom

Professor Judit Kormos’s desire to offer free knowledge to teachers about how to include dyslexic students in language learning prompted the start of a highly successful online teaching resource. Now enrolment for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Dyslexia and Language Teaching is open once again.

Sea of Faith

The Sea of Faith was a controversial 1980s TV show on the history of Christianity in the modern world. Professor Linda Woodhead (Politics, Philosphy and Religion) spoke to Giles Fraser on BBC Radio 4 about creator Don Cupitt.

Talking about Brexit – how did we get to this point?

Dr Veronika Koller (Linguistics and English Language) has co-edited a new book called 'Discourses of Brexit' which provides insights into how Leave voters explain their choice, how people discuss Brexit on social media and why, from time to time, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage sound very similar.