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Negotiation and the uses of history in business

Doing the pre-reading for a course in negotiation for university staff at UCLA while sitting in the Profeta coffee house on Glendon Avenue (much recommended), I came across another intersection between...

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Complementarity between disciplines 2: policy advice

In the domain of public policy advice, the case for an approach based on the complementarity of disciplines and professions should be a strong one.  Only very few policy problems lie within the domain...

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Parallel tracks 2: Academic/professional divides in universities

I blogged back in March about how the development of intellectual capacity and that of employability skills are too often regarded as parallel tracks in higher education.  Such false dichotomies often...

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Public history and public policy: A view from across the pond

A re-blog of my recent post on the National Council on Public History’s Public History Commons, History@Work (comments welcome – please add to the original): Looking from across the pond, the maturity...

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Does a great piece of history writing have to address itself to one...

I just wanted to reblog a interesting piece on the Guardian Higher Education Network that takes on the academic/public history divide. John Gallagher argues that history can be both popular and...

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Questioning academics

Reblogged from through the looking glass: A table at the Science Museum's Dana Centre coffee shop. No, I don't know what it means either.  The latest episode of Brain Train is up - the podcast I work...

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‘Science’ and ‘arts’: should we play in each other’s fields a bit more?

I find science and maths a real draw.  I often listen to The Life Scientific, Material World and More or Less podcasts ahead of more predictable favourites Making History, The Long View and History...

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Independent learning or isolated learning? Squaring the student satisfaction...

Our Dean of Students was telling me today about a presentation he recently gave, in which he highlighted views expressed by students on what ‘independent learning’ meant.  They essentially said that it...

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IHR Public History Seminar: History, newspapers and the blogosphere 6th February

The next IHR Public History seminar brings Glen O’Hara, former journalist now Reader in the History of Public Policy at Oxford Brookes (whose many blogging activities include his own Public Policy and...

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Policy advisers: out of the top corridor and into the classroom?

The university policy adviser is now a fixture in higher education.  At least, there are enough of us that we’re now getting organised.  There’s a large Political Affairs Network under the auspices of...

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Q: How many historians does it take to change a light bulb?

Reblogged from The Dispersal of Darwin: A: There is a great deal of debate on this issue. Up until the mid-20th century, the accepted answer was ‘one’: and this Whiggish narrative underpinned a number...

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Public history at the periphery? An integrative agenda for ‘public’ and...

My first experience of an NCPH conference, held in Ottawa last week, was excellent.  Being surrounded for the first time by over a hundred public historians of very different types was energising, and...

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The PhD viva: the five things that made a difference, part II

Back in April I posted shortly after submitting my PhD thesis on the five things that made a difference to me in getting it done.  The viva seemed a distant prospect.  Maybe you have to invest so much...

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Connecting research and teaching

One of the academic stereotypes often bandied around is that we only have eyes for our own research – teaching is an irritating and burdensome responsibility.  While there may be some out there with...

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Self-herding, discrimination, pride and defiance: thinking about badges

One of my teammates in the university football team had a wooden sign on her door: ‘Mathematics Department’.  She was training as a teacher after her maths degree and had been given the sign after a...

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Democratisation of knowledge, or just dissemination? Research (funding) and...

Hot Property, Cool Storage, Grey Literature – Public History Weekly – BlogJournal for History and Civics Education. An interesting discussion starting on Public History Weekly on the (unmet?) promises...

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Heritage and Business in Partnership: the power of the anniversary

John Lewis’ 150th anniversary is in full swing.  Products with designs inspired by and recovered from the amazing archives now held at the Heritage Centre in Odney are everywhere.  I was lucky enough...

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External engagement: actions speak louder than words?

I’ve just been at an event on external engagement in the arts and humanities at the University of York, one of a series supported by the British Academy. As is usual for events that bring academics...

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The Public Philosopher comes (back) to town: guilt, apologies and restitution

Two years ago I published the post below about the new Radio Four series, The Public Philosopher (tagline: ‘Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel examines the thinking behind a current...

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Backlash against the digital humanities movement

Our new colleague at Hertfordshire, Adam Crymble, has recently written an ‘essay on the backlash against the digital humanities movement’ – a reflection on ‘living in the age of digital hubris’ over...

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