Europe's Research Priorities Must Catch Up with Reality
Europe's Research Priorities Must Catch Up with Reality
To defend democracy, ensure security and guarantee prosperity, Europe must understand the societies it aims to serve
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To defend democracy, ensure security and guarantee prosperity, Europe must understand the societies it aims to serve
On 1 January this year, the UK became an associated country to Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research scheme, and to the EU’s Earth observation programme Copernicus. Linda Hantrais and Anouska Nithyanandan consider the broader implications of association for the social and human sciences and review the preparations that UK social scientists should be making to re-establish their international reputation for research excellence post-Brexit.
During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. Humanities enrollment in the United States has declined over all by seventeen per cent. What’s going on?
Times have changed, and the conditions that fostered the rise of liberal arts and sciences programs after the start of the Bologna reforms no longer obtain. This raises the question of how the liberal arts and sciences movement will continue in the near future. Can it still have any relevance in a changing context?
Over the past several years, scholars and critics have begun to talk about the survival of the humanities rather than its crisis. This essay traces the emergence of a rhetoric of salvation and survival in academic advocacy literature, evident in the genres, arguments, and metaphors that writers use to describe the academic humanities.
A Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals Community of Interest Network is launching! An interview with facilitators Laura Ansley and Dawn Durante about the group and its focus --and how it's meeting a clear need.
The challenge of demonstrating the value of the humanities can never be fully accomplished by showing that the humanities serve other disciplines.
A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.
The UK archaeology programme, which is being revived on YouTube, represents an ideal to which other disciplines can aspire.
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behaviour.
Science, and especially social sciences and humanities, have always had a broad range of impacts on society — impacts which are not easily measured using traditional academic indicators.
Remains with combination of Neanderthal and early human features date back 100,000 years.
Policymakers need insight from humanities and social sciences to tackle the pandemic.
Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.
The UK government wants more students to study science subjects - but employers want humanities graduates too.
Cross-sectoral mobility funding requires recipients to change their environment and often some aspects of their research. There is a need to understand the impact on the researchers' experiences as knowledge producers within such programs, as part of the broader potential and significance of cross-sectoral mobility funding.
The Open Data Institute invites people from across the globe to join and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.
Humanities Research Infrastructure is critical social investment, and we could support it better if we understood it better.
This article explores the current literature on ‘research impact’ in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
The author argues that for the humanities to successfully adopt digital technologies, they need to develop an independent open humanities discourse.
OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.
A new ALLEA report provides key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities. The document is designed as a practical guide to navigate the shift towards a sustainable data sharing culture.
Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.
Proposals to mandate open access monographs from 2024 will make it harder to publish and will limit career chances, says professor
Academic libraries have an opportunity to engage in open access publishing to promote and protect the work being done by humanities scholars.
There have been big declines in the proportion of humanities and social science papers published in Norwegian, conference told