From the Dean
I am delighted to welcome you as Dean to the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.
The School is a unique institution in UK Higher Education, uniting 10 research institutes of international repute, seven of them with significant library resources, to create an outstanding multidisciplinary environment for research and the pursuit of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences.
The School lies at the heart of a global research community. We are an umbrella organisation bringing together diverse institutes, disciplines and methods to provide a national co-ordinating centre for each subject and a multidisciplinary space for a network of scholars from around the world.
As such we are the only institution of our kind in the UK, nationally funded to support and promote research across and between a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.
The School's richness is defined not just by the ten institutes that it comprises but by the variety of subject fields explored within it and most of all by its community of scholars, researchers and students coming from all over the world.
I hope that you will find much of benefit from our extensive range of specialist research resources and services and that you will be encouraged to join our scholarly community.
Professor Roger Kain CBE FBA
Dean and Chief Executive
