head of programme

Kerry Myler

Kerry Myler

Dr Kerry Myler is the Programme Leader for the MA Applied Humanities and will be leading your Semester 1 module ‘Humanities at Work’. You can contact Kerry with any questions you may have about studying this course: K.Myler@newman.ac.uk.

In the first semester of the MA, all students will take the module ‘Introduction to the New Humanities’. This taught module will introduce you to advanced aspects of the interdisciplinary Humanities that you may not have encountered at undergraduate level or on subject-specific courses, such as new materialist, postcritical, and posthumanist approaches, as well as intersections with environmental, medical and digital spaces.

Full-time students will also take the module ‘Humanities at Work’. The module begins with exploring your individual career aspirations in relation to your studies. The second half of the module supports a collaborative ‘future study’ project where you will envision a sustainable future for a particular sector, industry or organisation.

Mondays 5-7pm online

Wednesdays 5-7pm online

Further details of your individual academic timetable will be available on mynewman after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login. Some additional sessions will be scheduled at a later point.

You may wish to get a head start on some of the required reading for the course. This includes the following ebooks available through Newman library:

Braidotti, R. (2019) Posthuman knowledge. Cambridge: Polity.

Haraway, D. (2016) Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press.

The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (2020) (eds.) Crawford, P., Brown, B. and Charise, A. London: Routledge.

The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research (2016) (eds.) Benneworth, P., Gulbrandsen, M. and Hazelkorn, E. Palgrave: London.