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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Hidden Transcripts of the Powerful: Researching the Arts of Domination
(SAGE Publications, 14 April 2024)This article develops a submerged aspect of James C Scott’s work on ‘hidden transcripts’. Whereas Scott focused predominantly on the hidden transcripts of the powerless, here we propose a research agenda based upon studying ... -
Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards
(Wiley, 27 February 2025)This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous research has usually focused ... -
What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions
(Elsevier, 15 May 2025)Much child corpus research has focused on the language of school writing. In the first part of this paper, I discuss what this work can contribute to theory and educational practice. I then look in detail at a recent ... -
Language Teacher Cognition in EFL Contexts. A Systematic Review
(Springer, 6 December 2024)Language teacher cognition has contributed significantly to our understanding of teacher education in the last 30 years, and there has been prolific research concerning English as a foreign language teachers. Many observations ... -
A framework for effective STEAM education: Pedagogy for responding to wicked problems
(Elsevier, 12 May 2025)This conceptual paper articulates a new strategic framework for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) education in Europe to respond to the challenges facing educators, researchers, students and policy ...