Value and the Humanities

Zoe Hope Bulaitis is a literary scholar with expertise in cultural and higher education policy. She is a researcher in the Creative Industries: Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC) within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Exeter where she previously taught literature and critical theory within the English Department.

“Bulaitis’s analysis of the values conveyed both in higher education speech and policies provides a useful study of how they are perceived, imagined, and put into practice within the British neoliberal context. … Bulaitis has articulated very convincing academic arguments to explain the shift from liberal to neoliberal university values and debates. This book offers accurate, clear, and meaningful food for thought for those interested in the study of the processes of ‘marketisation’ and ‘economisation’ of higher education.” (Catherine Coron, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)

• !. Introduction.- 2. A History of Payment by Results: Lowe’s Code (1862) and the Browne Report (2010).- 3: Controversy and Conversation: The Relationship Between the Humanities and the Sciences.- 4. The Relationship Between Academic Fiction and Academic Life.- 5. Impact and the Humanities: The Rise of Accountability in Public Cultural Life.- 6. Conclusion.