The podcast where we discuss the need for arts & humanities today! Hosted by @BF_Armstrong
Joined September 2022
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21 Dec 2024
Caught a whiff of something interesting? We’ll be back soon after our hiatus 👀
21 Dec 2024
If anyone fancies learning a little more about sensory studies, smell historian Will Tullett did a great episode of @BF_Armstrong’s podcast ‘What’s the Point?’ I’ll be doing an episode in the new year too! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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21 Dec 2024
If anyone fancies learning a little more about sensory studies, smell historian Will Tullett did a great episode of @BF_Armstrong’s podcast ‘What’s the Point?’ I’ll be doing an episode in the new year too! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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5 Dec 2024
The internet: sees one viral PhD announcement and spends days claiming that the humanities are useless.
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13 Dec 2023
Everything happening at Aberdeen is threatening the teaching of languages!
Listen to @ciarabgorman talk about why languages matter in our first episode ⬇️
19 Oct 2022
Hello, and welcome to 'What's the Point?'...
We're so excited to share with you our very first episode!
@BF_Armstrong is joined by @ciarabgorman to talk about language learning, gender studies and contemporary culture:
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13 Dec 2023
Solidarity with the staff at Aberdeen uni! We vehemently oppose the proposals to cut teaching and staff in A&H subjects!
10 Dec 2023
“On the same day I was shortlisted for this award I heard my job was at risk of redundancy. The university is not the management. It is the students and staff.” 🔥
We will overturn these outrageous cuts at Aberdeen University @aberdeen_ucu
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13 Dec 2023
guys is anyone able to add a Community Note to this explaining that Prof O’Connor received a risk of redundancy letter the same day he was shortlisted for this prize
12 Dec 2023
Congratulations to our staff and graduates on their success at Scotland's National Book Awards hosted by The Saltire Society, including Research Book of the Year for Professor Ralph O’Connor. abdn.io/f7
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…& (I would add) “tolerance to nuance”. As Prof Fussell so coherently puts it, the arts & hums can help us explore the depths of the “human condition”. Seems a no brainier to incl humanities training in med quals when you put it like that, doesn’t it?
24 Oct 2023
“The arts and humanities help to develop medical students’ tolerance to ambiguity”
In our latest episode, Professor Ian Fussell talks to us about why the arts and humanities have to go hand in hand with medicine 🩺
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24 Oct 2023
“The arts and humanities help to develop medical students’ tolerance to ambiguity”
In our latest episode, Professor Ian Fussell talks to us about why the arts and humanities have to go hand in hand with medicine 🩺
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21 Sep 2023
This is exactly why we need to shout about the need for arts and humanities today 📣
20 Sep 2023
The UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council @ahrcpress is to cut the number of PhD students it funds by a quarter, from 425 to 300 a year
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14 Sep 2023
What our pod intro means when it says, “we’re living in a time when the arts and humanities are under threat” ⬇️
We are dismayed to learn of ACU’s decision to gut its disciplines of History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Pol. Science, and the entirety of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 1/4
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30 Aug 2023
"We've known about the climate crisis for decades...what we're lacking is not information. What we're lacking is a way of relating to it that changes how we behave."
In our 10th episode, Conor Brennan talks to us about how the arts and humanities are tackling the climate crisis:
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4 Aug 2023
We discuss exactly this in our latest episode 🎙️
3 Aug 2023
AI-enhanced images a ‘threat to democratic processes’, experts warn dlvr.it/St8Tfz
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17 Jul 2023
Awful talk of low ‘value’ degrees, I discussed this at length on @wtppod_ 🥖🌹
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17 Jul 2023
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Check out our episode below with @_griff who talks about the amazing work Arts Emergency does to advocate for arts and humanities
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15 Jul 2023
Here’s also a podcast I was invited to participate in on the topic
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1 Mar 2023
“You can’t move forward if you don’t understand how you got here.”
In this new episode, researcher and upcoming author of The Roma, @madeline_cct, tells us about the power of arts & humanities in Roma communities 🖊️
Listen here: tinyurl.com/2p9249bt 🎧
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