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What will the humanities look like in ten years?

What will the humanities look like in ten years?

by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2021 | Features, Graduate Study

By Professor Christopher Smith, executive chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council In truth, things move slowly, but here are some of the changes we may be starting to see already … More porous I see the arts and humanities as transforming, not declining....
Humanities learning helps keep society sane

Humanities learning helps keep society sane

by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished

Professor Sarah Churchwell, the School of Advanced Study’s chair of public understanding of the humanities and director of its Being Human festival, says the sciences and the humanities are ‘not opposed, but deeply complementary and interdependent sets of knowledge.’...
The Space In-between: Benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research

The Space In-between: Benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary research

by aseifert | May 28, 2015 | Training and Research

Studying a subject in-between traditional disciplines is often talked about, but it is not always successfully practised in reality. Interdisiplinarity nonetheless offers a laudable goal to freeing research from silos, and enabling new, interesting avenues of research...
Humanities in Public: Manchester Stays Forever Young

Humanities in Public: Manchester Stays Forever Young

by aseifert | Jul 29, 2014 | Being Human festival, Languages & Literature, Projects, Public Engagement

In this guest post Manchester Metropolitan University’s Helen Malarky, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science Project Manager for Research and Impact  and Professor Berthold Schoene, Associate Dean for Humanities and Social Science Research, reflect on...
Early Career researchers a match for Science in Culture’s Ignite event

Early Career researchers a match for Science in Culture’s Ignite event

by aseifert | Jun 3, 2014 | Training and Research

Science in Culture is one of the key areas of AHRC funding and supports projects committed to developing reciprocal relationships between scientists and arts and humanities researchers. It is not easy to impress judges in any competition, but the 14 Early Career...

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