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Evis, Laura H. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2022
This article examines the development, impact and integration of interdisciplinary approaches in British Higher Education Institutions. It evaluates how the concept of interdisciplinarity has become popularised over time and embraced by disciplines such as archaeology. It then explores the extent to which interdisciplinary approaches have impacted…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Research Design, Foreign Countries
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Lunt, Ingrid; McAlpine, Lynn; Mills, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper explores the changing relationships between the UK government, its research councils and universities, focusing on the governing, funding and organisation of doctoral training. We use the Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a prism through which to study the shifting nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Social Sciences, Universities
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Hamann, Julian – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Far from allowing a governance of universities by the invisible hand of market forces, research performance assessments do not just measure differences in research quality, but yield themselves visible symptoms in terms of a stratification and standardization of disciplines. The article illustrates this with a case study of UK history departments…
Descriptors: Governance, Standards, Case Studies, Departments