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What are the success factors for public historians?
On the NCPH’s new public history commons, History@Work, Darlene Roth posted a blog about identifying what success looks like for public history, a debate as interesting in a US context, where...
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History ventures: skills vs knowledge in the public history marketplace
“The skills of doing history are more frequently used, needed, and recompensed than the expertise of knowing history” This is Darlene Roth, writing in the NCPH’s Public History News. Roth goes on to...
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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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Part 2: Negotiation and the uses of history in business
In Part 1 I talked about the importance of ‘placement’ for negotiation, of locating the other party within national and organisational cultural contexts as a way of understanding the likely approach to...
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Complementarity in Higher Education: what does it mean for disciplines?
One of the most important concepts in the Wilson Review of University-Business Collaboration is complementarity – the idea that different institutions with different histories, different cultures,...
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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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The ‘endless rustle of the in-tray’: finding time for historical thinking
Rohan Butler served as the Foreign Secretary’s historical adviser from 1963-82 and was one of the leading figures in the civil service’s post-war experiment in incorporating historical perspective into...
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‘It’s the mix that matters’: new journal article on history and expertise for...
Really pleased to see that my new article has gone ‘live’: History as expertise and the influence of political culture on advice for policy since Fulton Here’s the abstract: The 1968 Fulton report made...
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The Humanities, the public intellectual and human flourishing | Arts and...
‘Something needs to be done – urgently. We are agreed – right? But what?‘ stands the heading introducing a recent issue of the journal Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. We are given a peak at...
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