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Call to Integrate Social Sciences and Humanities in the EU Research Program FP10
Call to Integrate Social Sciences and Humanities in the EU Research Program FP10
What Associated Country Status Means for UK Social Sciences and Humanities Researchers
What Associated Country Status Means for UK Social Sciences and Humanities Researchers
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.

Evolution, Religion and Science: World Not As Polarised As We Think

The End of the English Major?
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?

Liberal Arts and Sciences After Bologna: What's Next?
Liberal Arts and Sciences After Bologna: What's Next?
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?

Beyond the Survival of the Global Humanities
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.
The Society for Scholarly Publishing Humanities Community Network Lifts Off
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 Public Futures of the Humanities
The challenge of demonstrating the value of the humanities can never be fully accomplished by showing that the humanities serve other disciplines.
'The Dawn of Everything' Rewrites 40,000 Years of Human History
A new book recasts human social evolution as multiple experiments with freedom and domination that started in the Stone Age.
'Time Team' Could Reveal the Future of Public Engagement
The UK archaeology programme, which is being revived on YouTube, represents an ideal to which other disciplines can aspire.

Scientists Find Evidence of Humans Making Clothes 120,000 Years Ago
Tools and bones in Moroccan cave could be some of earliest evidence of the hallmark human behaviour.

David Budtz Pedersen on Measuring the Impact of Science Advice
David Budtz Pedersen on Measuring the Impact of Science Advice
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.
Fossilised Bones Found in Israel Could Belong to Mystery Extinct Humans
Remains with combination of Neanderthal and early human features date back 100,000 years.

COVID-19 Recovery: STEM Isn't Enough to Save Us
Policymakers need insight from humanities and social sciences to tackle the pandemic.

A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities
A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities
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
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.

'Humanities Graduates Are Just As Employable': Do the Sciences Really Lead to More Jobs?
'Humanities Graduates Are Just As Employable': Do the Sciences Really Lead to More Jobs?
The UK government wants more students to study science subjects - but employers want humanities graduates too.

Cross-Sectoral Mobility Funding and the Challenge of Immersion: The Case of SSH
Cross-Sectoral Mobility Funding and the Challenge of Immersion: The Case of SSH
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.

ODI Summit 2020 - The ODI
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 Great Return on Investment - Will We Sell It Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is Great Return on Investment - Will We Sell It Short?
Humanities Research Infrastructure is critical social investment, and we could support it better if we understood it better.

Methods for Mapping the Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities - A Literature Review
Methods for Mapping the Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities - A Literature Review
This article explores the current literature on ‘research impact’ in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).

Open Humanities: Why Open Science in the Humanities is Not Enough
Open Humanities: Why Open Science in the Humanities is Not Enough
The author argues that for the humanities to successfully adopt digital technologies, they need to develop an independent open humanities discourse.

OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication
OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication
OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.

Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities
Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities
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.
Understanding the Key Dimensions in Developing SSH Research Societal Impact
Understanding the Key Dimensions in Developing SSH Research Societal Impact
Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.

Humanities Scholars Warn over UKRI's Plan for Open-access Books
Proposals to mandate open access monographs from 2024 will make it harder to publish and will limit career chances, says professor

How Academic Libraries Can Support Humanities Monographs
Academic libraries have an opportunity to engage in open access publishing to promote and protect the work being done by humanities scholars.

Switch to English 'risks Social Relevance' of European Humanities
There have been big declines in the proportion of humanities and social science papers published in Norwegian, conference told

The True Costs of Research and Publishing
Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history.
