The School of Humanities is based on two campuses at the University of Brighton: the Checkland building, Falmer campus, and the Pavilion Parade building, City Campus. The school offers an intellectually vibrant and supportive research environment for the study of the humanities in the subject areas of: literature, language and linguistics; history of art and design; history, philosophy, culture and politics.

The school is home to three of the university's Centres of Research and Enterprise Excellence (COREs): Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE); Centre for Design History; Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories. It also hosts one Research and Enterprise Group (REG), the Performance and Communities REG.