Dr Robin Jackson: “Messy, debatable and unquantifiable”: Championing the Humanities

Published: Sept. 7, 2014, noon

Dr Robin Jackson, Chief Executive and Secretary, British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, gives a review of some of the challenges and issues that face Humanities in the USA and UK and possibly Australia/New Zealand too. He provides some reflections on the nature of the study of the Humanities which might explain why those challenges arise; and an illustration of various ways in which they can be addressed. 8 September 2014