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....
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.’...
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...
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...
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...