The value of arts and humanities research to life in the UK

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Iain Borden
Keyword(s):  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Architectural Research

The document that follows was written by Iain Borden as the contribution on ‘Architecture’ to the Arts and Humanities Research Council's report for the UK Government on ‘The Value of Arts and Humanities Research to Life in the UK’ and offers a further contribution to arq's ongoing discussions about the nature of architectural research.

scholarly journals Redefining peer learning: Role of student entrepreneurs in teaching entrepreneurship in the UK higher education context

2021 ◽  
pp. 095042222110126
Author(s):  
Stella Xu ◽  
Zimu Xu ◽  
Fujia Li ◽  
Arun Sukumar
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
School Students ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Student Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Entrepreneurship-related modules have become increasingly popular over the years, not only among business school students but also among those from other disciplines, including engineering and the arts and humanities. In some circumstances, they are offered as optional modules for students across different faculties and disciplines. While it is beneficial to mix students with different backgrounds, bringing in a wide range of perspectives, there are also challenges relating to course design and student engagement. With these challenges in mind, the authors trialled a new approach in the hope of motivating students from diverse academic and socio-cultural backgrounds to engage more fully in the classroom by utilising student entrepreneurs as guest speakers. The student-centric approach has proved effective in enhancing student engagement, as evidenced by both informal and formal feedback.

The French Language in Russia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Offord ◽  
Vladislav Rjéoutski ◽  
Gesine Argent
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Uk

-- With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau -- The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics. Beyond its bearing on some of the grand narratives of Russian thought and literature, this book may afford more general insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary implications and effects of bilingualism in a speech community over a long period. It should also enlarge understanding of francophonie as a pan-European phenomenon. On the broadest plane, it has significance in an age of unprecedented global connectivity, for it invites us to look beyond the experience of a single nation and the social groups and individuals within it in order to discover how languages and the cultures and narratives associated with them have been shared across national boundaries.

Teaching and learning French – A tale of desire in the humanities

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Catriona Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
French Language Learning

This article considers the way we talk about learning and teaching the humanities in higher education in the UK. By using the tools of the arts and humanities within the scholarship of learning and teaching, and examining a personal perspective, the author explores the transformational impact of French language learning and teaching. Close textual analysis of literary language learning memoirs highlight the sensual and physical effects of language learning that can remain muted in our everyday conversations. As a result, the author suggests that rather than lament the death of the humanities in 21st century higher education, learning and teaching a language offers a pedagogy of desire that embodies the transformation aspect of our disciplines, as we deal with the business of being human.

scholarly journals The rationale for the DREaM: Developing Research Excellence and Methods Project

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (110) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Hall ◽  
Stephanie Kenna ◽  
Charles Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Excellence ◽  
The Uk

The article describes the background to the development of the DREaM project, which is aimed at expanding the range of skills of UK-based researchers in the LIS field, and at developing a network of active researchers, both in academia and amongst LIS practitioners. The project, which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council involves two major conferences and a number of workshops throughout the UK starting in July 2011. Details of the events, and how the project will be evaluated, are provided.

scholarly journals Who owns educational research? Disciplinary conundrums and considerations

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Marshall ◽  
Kate Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
English History ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Research Councils

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the dynamics of submitting arts-based research in a climate that is dominated, in the UK, by the social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – It begins by taking a view on arts-based research, considering mainly Eisner and Dewey but exploring the possibilities of other forms such as baroque research. It goes on to look at some examples of arts-based research that has been carried out, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The authors conclude by saying that interdisciplinary research, while being encouraged by research councils, is also made more difficult by these same research councils’ funding structures. Findings – The authors consider that this has an effect on defining what educational research is and could be. The authors argue that this is important not only in relation to the range of disciplinary perspectives that can be drawn upon within educational settings, for example, the need to engage with disciplines such as English, History, Philosophy, Music and Fine Art, but also in relation to methodological understandings of how research should be conducted within educational settings. Originality/value – The research studies are arts based but with an original educational orientation.

Methodological commons: arts and humanities e-Science fundamentals

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1925) ◽  
pp. 3779-3796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Anderson ◽  
Tobias Blanke ◽  
Stuart Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research

The application of e-Science technologies to disciplines in the arts and humanities raises major questions as to how those technologies can be most usefully exploited, what tools and infrastructures are needed for that exploitation, and what new research approaches can be generated. This paper reviews a number of activities in the UK and Europe in the last 5 years which have sought to address these questions through processes of experimentation and targeted infrastructure development. In the UK, the AHeSSC (Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre) has played a coordinating role for seven projects funded by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative. In Europe, DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) has sought to develop a deeper understanding of research information and communication in the arts and humanities, and to inform the development of e-infrastructures accordingly. Both sets of activity have indicated a common requirement: to construct a framework which consistently describes the methods and functions of scholarly activity which underlie digital arts and humanities research, and the relationships between them. Such a ‘methodological commons’ has been formulated in the field of the digital humanities. This paper describes the application of this approach to arts and humanities e-Science, with reference to the early work of DARIAH and AHeSSC.

scholarly journals Forced to flee: A multi-disciplinary conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (904) ◽  
pp. 421-432
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Council ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The University

“Forced to Flee” was a multidisciplinary two-day conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises, jointly organized by SOAS University of London, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Exeter, the British Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It brought together some sixty researchers, independent and UK government policy-makers, and senior humanitarian practitioners.

Board to Council

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
The Core ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Strategic Initiatives ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Public Body ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Research Councils

The AHRB was given the core responsibility to produce 12,000 active arts and humanities researches over the UK. As of 1998, the Board had made over 4000 awards involving over 5000 researches. Across the UK, in the institutions of the government and the academy, several have been engaged with the AHRB and were actively committed to the fulfilment of the AHRB as a true Research Council. In 2005, the Arts and Humanities Research Council achieved its desired transformation after having built an impressive array of assets. This chapter discusses the transformation of the Arts and Humanities Research Board to a Research Council. In the process of the transformation of the Board, several changes were made. Among of these are the transition of the charitable status of the board and the transition of the AHRB's assets and obligations in to the new Non-Deparmental Public Body (NDPB). It also meant that the now AHRC must provide multi-year funding and the creation of strategic initiatives that would support intellectual urgency. The integration of the AHRC within the Research Councils also meant the restoration of arts and humanities to the circle of serious sciences and knowledge.

Design and implementation of an online teaching and learning resource for textile design, arts and crafts

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Susanne Goetz ◽  
Jo Lambert ◽  
Rachel Studd
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Textile Design ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

A research team within the Textiles Department at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has since 2001 been involved in designing and realising an internet-based resource for textile students and staff at higher education institutions in the UK. The project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). Members of the team here provide an overview of the main issues involved in planning and implementing a digitisation project, discussing technical and design details and describing the construction of textile terminology relevant to design students.

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