Open Letters

Academic Image Reproduction Fees
(December 2006)

The Modern Humanities Research Association applauds the Victoria and Albert Museum for its recent decision to abolish reproduction fees for scholarly use of images of its collection...
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Modern Languages as Strategically Important Subjects
(November 2006)

I read with interest that "the Government is demanding early notice of university plans to axe 'strategically important' subjects" as nearly a quarter of physics departments were found to be in "a vulnerable state". Does the Government also want early notice of university plans to axe other strategically important subjects - such as, for example, modern foreign languages?...
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Response to a Call for Consultation on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (September 2005)

The MHRA has serious reservations about the RAE process which it sees, more and more, not as an indicator of research quality but as a managerial tool, a convenient one which allows managers to make hasty judgements about the relative value of different forms of research output...
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Contribution to British Academy Review of Creativity & The Economy (November 2002)
The Modern Humanities Research Association is pleased to be able to contribute to this review, and we hope that it will lead to a more balanced and discerning appreciation of the role of arts and humanities in a rapidly changing environment ...
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