Professional links

Maintaining the health and vitality of subjects offered by the School of Arts and Humanities, members of the School sit on major national and international associations and councils and maintain strong professional links with external agencies. For example, the School is represented on the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College and members of English and CCM staff advise the AHRC's Peer Review Panels on applications for research funding.

Arts and Humanities staff have worked with:

the British Academy
the British Council
the Heritage Lottery Fund
Arts Council, England
UNICEF
the National Maritime Museum
the National Trust
the Design Centre, London
the Design Museum, London
councils and museums in Bristol, Cardiff, Birmingham, Norfolk and Leicester.

Several of the School's historians have been evaluators for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Wellcome Trust and have acted as assessors for the Flemish scientific awards body of the Belgian Government, the Fulbright Commission and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

Staff have served on international and national panels and on the executives or committees of nationally recognised organisations, including:

the Council for College and University English
the Society for the Study of French History
the National Archives Advisory Panel
the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology
the International Committee for the History of Technology
the Society for Renaissance Studies
the John Clare Society
the Society for Caribbean Studies
the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group.

The School's Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism is linked with a consortium of industry representatives; members of the School regularly contribute to broadcasts on TV and radio, locally, nationally and internationally.

The Languages and International Studies team maintains strong links with embassies and consulates, and engages in dialogue and consultation with NGOs, national and international language learning organisations, and the business sector.

Staff disseminate research through editorial work for major presses and on a number of high profile journals. These include:

In addition, several of us are series editors for major presses:

American and Canadian Writers (Manchester University Press)
Longman Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Longman Critical Readers
Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in their Time (Irish Academic Press)
Routledge Research in Travel Writing

Staff have also held a number of prestigious fellowships and visiting professorships, including:

Leverhulme Research Fellowships
the Hawthornden Fellowship
Caird Research Fellowship, National Maritime Museum
Everett Helms Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University
Stanley J Kahrl Fellowship in Theatre History, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library and Art Galleries, San Marino, California
visiting professor, Institute of European Studies, Nanhua University, Taiwan
visiting lecturer, Jewish Studies Centre, Michigan State University.

For further information on professional links please contact Professor Nahem Yousaf.