Research

The School of English has a dynamic research culture involving staff, postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows. Research activities include organising international conferences and literary festivals; undertaking collaborative research and archival projects; as well as scholarly editing and the writing of monographs and works of literature.

In REF2021, 87% of the School's research outputs and 100% of its research Impact was found to be world-leading or internationally excellent. In REF2014 86% of our research was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We also had strong results in the previous research assessment exercise (2008), making the School one of the UK's consistently outstanding research departments.