by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Professor David Sugarman traces the bonds between law and the humanities and calls for greater dialogue and cross-fertilisation Law has long been a principal way of studying the human world. Before the rise of modern social science, speculation about society,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 7, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law
Michael Thomson, professor of health law at the University of Technology Sydney and chair in health law with the University of Leeds, looks to interdisciplinary dialogue to understand aspects of health care. In his leading contribution to this issue of Talking...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2022 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Courses and learning to compress complex stories are promising aids to communication for government and historians, writes Professor Patrick Salmon. How close should academic historians get to government? ‘Very close indeed,’ their universities would probably say,...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
A ‘Global Britain’ needs to invest in upgrading and expanding its multilingual capacity and that should begin by showing respect for the array of languages used by members of our diverse communities, says Professor Li Wei, director and dean of the UCL Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources
The Open World Research initiative (OWRI) has left rich legacies to build on, writes Professor Janice Carruthers, dean of research in arts, humanities and social sciences at Queen’s University Belfast I have just completed a four-year period as priority area...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 7, 2021 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Languages & Literature
Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
