Finn, Margot;
(2025)
Reflections on History closures.
Journal of the British Academy
, 13
(1)
, Article a05. 10.5871/jba/013.a05.
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Abstract
This intervention uses UK university History redundancies as an optic for exploring the broader issue of closures and restructuring in SHAPE (and STEM) subjects. (SHAPE stands for social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy, in contrast to the science, technology and mathematics subjects of STEM). It focuses on four topics. The first is the problematic nature of the data we have to analyse these developments. The second is the financial drivers (including perverse incentives) that shape redundancies and closures. The third is the ‘lumpy’ institutional impact of closures nationally. Finally, the intervention asks how these changes may affect student choice and the wider health of academic disciplines in the UK. This article is published in the thematic collection ‘On recent closures and threats of closure in the Humanities and Social Sciences’, edited by Regenia Gagnier.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reflections on History closures |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5871/jba/013.a05 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/013.a05 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The author(s) 2025. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en). |
| Keywords: | closures, data, disciplines, restructuring, SHAPE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206600 |
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