Wednesday 1 July 2015

Researching Celebrity and the Frivolous

Recently Ruth Penfold-Mounce published a short forum piece in Celebrity Studies


This piece Conducting frivolous research in neoliberal universitites: what is the value of glossy topics? sought to extend the argument from an early forum article written with Dave Beer back in 2010 on Researching Glossy Topics

It would seem that research the frivolous does have value despite neoliberal tendencies of Higher Education in times of austerity.

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