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What is the public value of arts and humanities research? If we take a look around the world, then it is easy to conclude that such a question is irrelevant precisely because its public value (or at least that of the underlying arts and humanities) is so self-evident. But if you start as an outsider (even as a scholar) to read a humanities article or monograph, one is immediately confronted with an apparently impenetrable collage of unfamiliar and often foreign vocabulary; how can it ever be that such unintelligible gibberish can have a value to the public? To answer the public value question, we trace the models by which it creates public value, and the conditions under which that value can be maximised.
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Benneworth, P., Gulbrandsen, M., Hazelkorn, E. (2016). Public Understanding of the Value of Arts and Humanities Research. In: The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40899-0_1
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