This conversation was recorded on 15 March 2017, at the British Academy.

Professor Dominic Abrams is Vice President(Social Sciences) at the British Academy, Professor of Social Psychology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent.

Professor Alan Bowman is Vice-President (Humanities) at the British Academy and Former Principal and Camden Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.

Dominic Abrams And Alan Bowman discuss the challenges facing the humanities and social sciences

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