Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
In a time of volatility, complexity and uncertainty, research and education across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are critical to unlocking human creativity, to engaging in a human-centred way with the world around us, and to building the inclusive understanding that will help us to co-create a better future. The faculty is comprised of nine departments, all of which undertake fundamental discovery research, as well as applied activity and skills development and reflect areas of economic, social and cultural importance. The faculty hosts the University Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) and the Faculty Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), which are key structures for further promoting interdisciplinarity within the faculty and across others. For more information, please visit http://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/hass/
Recent Submissions
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Public Service Users’ Responses to Performance Information: Bayesian Learning or Motivated Reasoning?
(Oxford University Press (OUP) / Public Management Research Association, 30 May 2024)Although performance information is widely promoted to improve the accountability of public service provision, behavioral research has revealed that motivated reasoning leads recipients to update their beliefs inaccurately. ... -
Making sense of state violence: Understanding public inquiries as political devices
(Routledge, 2024)Whenever a political scandal or controversy erupts, one is likely to hear a familiar demand: “There must be a public inquiry!”. Inquiries are institutions of last resort, instigated only when something has gone wrong or ... -
Reckoning with responsibility: The Mesopotamia Commission into British military failings during a moment of imperial transformation, 1916–19
(Oxford University Press, 23 March 2024)In August 1916, in the aftermath of significant defeats in the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War, the British government faced a crisis of confidence in its military power. In Mesopotamia, it was under significant ... -
Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain
(Wiley, 2 May 2024)This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite ... -
The role of oral language in the dialogic primary classroom
(Routledge, 30 May 2024)This article takes stock of the current trends in research, policy and practice regarding the role of language in the dialogic classroom. The article uses the policies of two different educational jurisdictions as counterpoints ...