Humanities awards shake-up
A SHAKE-UP of a Pounds 4 million postgraduate award scheme is planned by the British Academy's Humanities Research Board. Managed by the Department for Education and Employment for more than 20 years...
A SHAKE-UP of a Pounds 4 million postgraduate award scheme is planned by the British Academy's Humanities Research Board. Managed by the Department for Education and Employment for more than 20 years...
The historian talks about growing up in the ‘open-air museum’ of Berlin and his popular books on some of the 20th century’s most terrible events and individuals
For the first time, a university's design archives have been nationally recognised through a grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Housed in the University of Brighton's...
Groundbreaking photographer David Goldblatt’s archive should stay in South Africa, where it belongs, writes Martin Hall
A G. Brown was the second most important minister in the Labour government of 1964-1970, which like today's was conducting rigorous reviews of its spending priorities, trying to reform the House of...
Many reacted to Karl Andersson’s autoethnography on cartoon child porn by asking how it could have been allowed to go ahead. But amid doubts about who it harmed and ongoing concerns about research...
The once obscure world of British higher education is revealed with the opening of a new archive of detailing the machinations of yesteryear's vice chancellors, writes Alan Thomson. The Modern...
As precarity affects ever more academics for ever longer, many have come to see a permanent position as the gateway to professional happiness. But does it always work out that way? Or do the...
Multiple small grants from trusts and charities can lend research projects credibility, opening bigger doors down the line, says Sophia Labadi
Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded
The Cundill History Prize winner talks about uncovering a forgotten archive to tell the story of a slave rebellion ‘from the inside out’
The winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize talks about the importance of ‘mass photography’ and her experience of studying as a single parent
Ambitious AHRC-funded programme should help break down barriers and enable scholars to ask difficult questions about heritage
Australian researchers’ funding hopes hinge not on whether rule was wrong, but on whether wrong rule was applied correctly
Crawford Medal-winning historian on why New Zealand doesn’t have borders, big screens are a good thing and research grant applications are too long