New British Academy policy toolkit: Understanding SHAPE Graduates
The British Academy has recently launched a new data-rich policy resource, the Understanding SHAPE Graduates toolkit. The toolkit aims to shine a light on SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy) graduates’ contributions to the UK economy and society and to help increase understanding of their career trajectories. It consists of an interactive data dashboard, a series of ‘key findings’ drawn from the data, and a policy briefing contextualising how graduate outcomes are understood and measured by policymakers. Why now? The Academy regularly makes the case for the positive impact SHAPE graduates make to the […]
PSA25 Conference Highlights
This blog was written by the PSA25 Convening Team. With a theme of What Next? our 75th anniversary annual conference in Birmingham was our biggest and best yet! Taking place from 14 – 16 April and featuring over 200 sessions and nearly 900 delegates, conference highlights included; timely keynote talks given by Prof. Rosie Campbell (Kings College London) on political representation and shifting identities, culture wars and the quality of democracy, Prof. Nicole Curato (University of Birmingham) asking if democracy can survive the broligarchy, and Prof. Anand Menon (Kings College London) and the BBC’s Political Correspondent Ben Wright in-conversation […]