The Coalition government showed a disdain for the arts, humanities and social sciences. The plight of these disciplines requires action from the incoming Labor government on three fronts.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Arts and humanities
Displaying all articles
Arts service organisations advocate for artists and help develop artforms. Cuts in NSW signal a more targeted approach to reduced government support for the arts and culture.
The education minister has outlined reforms to higher education funding aimed at producing ‘job ready graduates’. But his announcements don’t seem completely in line with the data.
With the support of universities, PhD graduates working beyond the academy could bring their knowhow into PhD seminars or classrooms to help current students expand their career horizons.
Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
US president Donald Trump’s industrial scale deception has dangerous implications everywhere. What then, can we do to foster a more civilised society?
Mobilising value from science and technology needs help from thinkers, designers, makers, policymakers and enablers – and this expertise often sits in the humanities, arts and social sciences domain.
We need to rethink how we frame discourse about Chinese students who speak out at universities – we seem to have forgotten that argument is a normal part of university study.
The power of storytelling research through film.
Many medical disciplines have started encouraging their students to embrace lessons from the arts and humanities. Physiotherapy is lagging behind.
What is creativity? Tomes as thick as car tyres have been written addressing this question. The recently-released Global Creativity Index offers some answers but that doesn’t mean they’re the right ones.
Suicidal thoughts among college students are more common than we think. Graduate students, especially those in the humanities, are at a greater risk.
Top contributors
-
Emeritus Professor of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University
-
Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
-
Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
-
Julian Meyrick is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
-
Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
-
Lecturer in Media and Communications., University of Sussex
-
Associate Professor in Physiotherapy, University of the Western Cape
-
Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
-
Early Career Researcher in Screen Studies, The University of Melbourne
-
Senior Research Fellow, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Principal Academic in Television and Film Production, Bournemouth University
-
Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
-
Professor of History, School Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
-
Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
-
Ph.D. Student in Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University
