“Flower of Aristolochia gigas var. sturtevantii used as a hat by a native of British Guiana” – a photograph from Everard im Thurn at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [PDF]
, 2015 The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, holds a small but valuable and unstudied collection of photographs by Everard im Thurn (1852–1932) who contributed to botany, with specimens and publications, and to anthropology, publishing works that highlight his ...
Albuquerque, Sara
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The Arts and Humanities Degree: Value and Benefits
Athens Journal of Humanities & ArtsIn this paper, I address the misconception that an Arts and Humanities degree is not applicable to the modern workforce. I will discuss how the degree sets up a graduate for a very large number of jobs that carry good wages and benefits.
Steven M. Oberhelman
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Towards Innovative Humanities: The Text as a Laboratory. Traditions, Hypotheses, Ideas
Teksty Drugie, 2015 The article provides a comment on the current debate over arts and science and on academic politics. The perspective of the so-called “technouniversity” leads to the progressive marginalisation of the humanities whose critical evaluation is based on the ...
Ryszard Nycz
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Post-digital humanities: computation and cultural critique in the arts and humanities [PDF]
, 2014 Today we live in computational abundance whereby our everyday lives and the environment that surrounds us are suffused with digital technologies. This is a world of anticipatory technology and contextual computing that uses smart diffused computational ...
Berry, David M
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Do Mendeley reader counts indicate the value of arts and humanities research? [PDF]
, 2017 This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Sage in Journal of Librarianship and Information Science on 19/09/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000617732381 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the ...
Thelwall, Mike
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Culture and climate change scenarios: the role and potential of the arts and humanities in responding to the ‘1.5 degrees target’ [PDF]
, 2018 This paper critically assesses the role and potential of the arts and humanities in relation to the ‘1.5 degree target’ embedded within the Paris Agreement. Specifically, it considers the purpose of scenarios in inviting thinking about transformed futures.
Smith, Joe, Tyszczuk, Renata
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Psychoanalysis and the Arts & Humanities: a multilingual perspective (leaflet) [PDF]
, 2006 A leaflet for the opening ...
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Transformation in a changing climate: a research agenda [PDF]
, 2016 The concept of transformation in relation to climate and other global change is increasingly receiving attention. The concept provides important opportunities to help examine how rapid and fundamental change to address contemporary global challenges can ...
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Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2017 The humanities are increasingly being introduced into the medical curriculum. Suggested benefits include increased observational skills and ability to consider alternatives or perspectives thus leading to improved person centred, empathic and clinically ...
Eileen Margaret McKinlay
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The Affordances of Arts and Humanities in Multidisciplinary Projects
Akademisk Kvarter, 2016 The theme of this article is the role of aesthetics in providing one affordance of the arts and humanities in multidisciplinary research projects. The premise is that sense and sensemaking processes (as described by Weick (1995) and Luhmann (1984)) are ...
Falk Heinrich
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