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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

More than a dozen research lobby groups are urging Brussels and EU member states to better integrate social sciences and humanities in the next Framework Programme, FP10, to bring these disciplines to bear on policy ambitions.

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

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

A new global survey has revealed that evolutionary science and religion are more compatible than many of us assume.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How Academic Libraries Can Support Humanities Monographs

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.