Books that Matter: Orientalism by Edward Said
Nabila Ahmed BA English, Goldsmiths, University of London When I began studying English, I thought I loved literature for its beauty: for Shakespeare’s language, for the drama of tragedy,…
Experts in the Community
Experts in the Community Dr Joanna Nissel is a poet and Operations Lead at Bath Spa University’s The Story Society, an interdisciplinary research centre exploring the use of Story…
UE 2025 Book Prize Winner Louis Klee
Louis Klee, The Constellational Novel (Oxford University Press, 2025). Institutional affiliation: University of Cambridge This is an original, significant and rigorous piece of scholarship on the relationship between the contemporary novel and…
REF 2029 Open Forum Resources
The slides from the REF 2029 Open Forum are now available in the Consultations and Reports section of our Resources page.
Poetic social infrastructure: Foregrounding relational, everyday heritage through poetry
Dr Joseph Owen is a senior researcher on the AHRC And Towns projects, a specialist policy officer for Public Policy | Southampton and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities and a critic of…
University English Book Prize Shortlist 2025
Congratulations to our 2025 shortlist! Eleanor Careless, Jade French, Louis Klee and Hannah Lucas Shortlist Overview Eleanor Careless, Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn: Serve Your Own Sentences (Bloomsbury…
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers
Wales’ National Writing Squad: Building a community of young writers This blog is from Dr Aiysha Jahan, a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University in Wales.…
Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis
Sticking together: collage as a community listening praxis Isaac Fraveshi – PhD student, poet, and artist at the Southampton Institute of Arts and Humanities – has worked with Feeling…
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda?
How does literary practice allow us to think about the ‘pride in place’ agenda? What can poetry offer to policy makers? Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) The AHRC-funded Feeling…
Subtle and Simple Surprises: reflections on co-creating a ‘Living Glossary’ for a community of practice.
In this blog Professor Stephanie Jones discusses the process of creating a vocabulary for shaping a community that crosses disciplines and sectors: considered words, she suggests, are vital for…