By DAVID MYTON “… humanities and social science research is not always valued on the public stage …’ Thus spake Alun Evans, the Chief Executive of The British Academy, commenting last week on a new £10m ($A18 million) initiative “to promote and support high quality research” in the humanities and social sciences...
By DAVID MYTONIn the closing decades of the 20th century postmodernism was the philosophy of choice within the humanities, with the likes of Foucault and Derrida the sages du jour. Their influence was felt particularly within the history discipline, where skepticism abounded, micro histories flourished, and ‘metanarratives’...
By DAVID MYTON Much of the higher education discourse today is centred on the need for students to study “practical” subjects ranging from STEM to those such as accounting, commerce and business-related topics that segue into the needs and demands of employers. And why wouldn’t it be...