ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the sets of evidence: external measures, external opinions from interested parties and internal views of individual social scientists or learned societies. It summarises this evidence and presents views of the social sciences as seen by some key stakeholders in different sectors: governments, business and the professions. The British Academy (BA) found evidence of an emerging crisis of recruitment to PhD research and subsequent academic and research careers. This involved the increasing difficulty of attracting good quality UK PhD students in the humanities and social sciences. Increase the number of PhD studentship awards available in the humanities and social sciences. BA has been subject to much greater investigation of the quality of teaching, and the student experience generally, than occurs in any other country in the world. The BA has found evidence of major difficulties for subjects that include business and management studies, economics, education, law, modern languages, politics, and psychology.
