Mapping the multidisciplinarity of the Arts & Humanities
“The Arts & Humanities include a diverse range of subjects, including many of the oldest intellectual pursuits such as Philosophy, Religion, Music, History, Art, Theatre and Literature. These...
View ArticleOn Interdisciplinarity
“On perusing some documentation in advance of a staff meeting recently, I noticed a suggestion that interdisciplinary degree programs should be used as an ‘output’ in their own right …” (more)...
View ArticleMultidisciplinary departments: do they work?
“Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’. My first department meeting as an academic in the early 1990s was a...
View ArticleEducation – broad or deep?
“Sir, – Karlin Lillington’s recent column (‘Graduates must bridge divide between arts and science’, Business Opinion, June 4th) is just the latest in a growing list of articles extolling the value of...
View ArticleThe road to STEAM
“Mary gets a degree in a traditional discipline. Mary gets her first job and it’s right in the middle of her discipline. After a few years, Mary moves ‘sideways’ and starts to drift away from her...
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