Investigating longer-term employability in the humanities
LLAS worked in collaboration with the Subject Centres for English, and History, Classics and Archaeology to carry out a piece of research into the longer-term employability of graduates of these discipline areas.
Timescale
March, 2006
Key contact(s):
John Canning
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
J.Canning@soton.ac.uk
Funded by:
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Project aims:
To ascertain how graduates feel their degrees have prepared them for the world of work, looking particularly at the personal attributes and skills they have gained as well as specific subject knowledge
Outcomes:
Download report
A wider perspective and more options: investigating the longer term employability of humanities graduates (pdf, 2.3Mb)
ISBN: 0-9541709-3-8
March 2006
Understanding what graduates do after leaving university has mainly depended upon statistics collected six months after graduation. A wider perspective and more options is based on in-depth interviews with humanities graduates from the 1970s onwards and captures something of the diversity of career paths followed by graduates in so-called 'non-vocational' disciplines.The report will be a valuable resource for lecturers and careers advisors seeking to help humanities students prepare for life after graduation.
