English in the Media
#English Creates: Futures Symposium Recordings
Recordings from the enormously successful #EnglishCreates Futures Symposium 2026 – University English are now available to view! Watch panels on: ‘English, Reading, and Advocacy’, ‘Social Media, Influence, and Online Communities’,…
Charter for Change launched at Westminster
University English, the Institute of English Studies, The English Association and Bloomsbury Press took the case for English Studies to Westminster at a Parliamentary Breakfast hosted by the Rt. Hon.…
Negative Impact of AI on Creativity
By Charlotte Wong, Hanna Fischer, Sin Ka Lau (Reading University) AI is negatively impacting our own creativity These are a few concerns that researchers have raised. 1. Cognitive…
Creative Writing and AI
By Charlotte Wong, Hanna Fischer, Sin Ka Lau (Reading University) Did you know that there are different stages to the process of creative writing? Here’s what they are,…
Are we able to differentiate between AI vs human-written texts?
By Charlotte Wong, Hanna Fischer, Sin Ka Lau (Reading University) AI-written texts are on the rise through the widespread use of large language models (LLMs). This means that…
AI through the eyes of English Students
This month the social media accounts of English Creates Futures will be curated by a group of English Language students from the University of Reading. The work you will…
Reflections on lifelong learning
Reflections on lifelong learning Richard J. Jones (The Open University) Recently, I met a professor of eighteenth-century literature, who had been teaching for over fifty years. I was pleased to…
How a ‘geography of ideas’ can help us reimagine English heritage
How a ‘geography of ideas’ can help us reimagine English heritage Philip Seargeant (The Open University) There used to be a pub on the corner of Downing Street.…
The Writers’ Nook
The Writers’ Nook The Writers’ Nook is a corner of a café at the University Hospital of North Tees. It is part of a project to look at how…
Oracy: a bridge between school learning and the wider world
Oracy: a bridge between school learning and the wider world Topsy Page (Oracy Cambridge) Exploratory talk is central to learning, and critical in the study of language and literature.…
Open University students reflect on studying English
Open University students reflect on studying English Richard J. Jones (The Open University) At The Open University, students of different ages and backgrounds study English Literature, Creative Writing, or…
Will we still be reading English literature in the future?
Will we still be reading English literature in the future? Shafquat Towheed (The Open University) Is reading in danger? We are currently in the midst of the National…
Coastlines
Coastlines Edward Hogan (The Open University) For the last few years, writers and researchers in the department of English and Creative Writing at the Open University have been undertaking…
Digital literacies: a lifelong endeavour
Digital literacies: a lifelong endeavour Caroline Tagg and Korina Giaxoglou (The Open University) In our digitally connected world, staying on top of the latest technologies is a lifelong…
Lifelong Learning and English: articles to explore
Lifelong Learning and English: articles to explore Richard J. Jones (The Open University) The World Health Organisation reports that people are living longer. According to its findings, in…
Lifelong learning and the study of English
Lifelong learning and the study of English Richard J. Jones (The Open University) ‘Literature’, says David Hume towards the end of the eighteenth century, ‘has been the ruling passion…
The subtle nuances and humour in Elizabeth Bishop’s visual art and writing
Miriam Levy was employed as an Editorial Assistant last summer. She recently completed a BA degree in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Dr Jonathan Ellis and Professor…
(re)-encountering multiple ideations of home through Elizabeth Bishop
James Howell is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Confined to my childhood bedroom, the small matter of a global pandemic upending the usual university experience,…
Encountering Elizabeth Bishop’s voice
Grace Hogg holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Sheffield. Working on Elizabeth Bishop’s Postcards under the guidance of Dr Jonathan Ellis was one…
Transcribing Elizabeth Bishop
Kat Ebbs is Trusts and Foundations Officer for Sheffield Hospitals Charity. She holds a BA and MA in English Literature from the University of Sheffield. I loved being involved…
The ‘art form’ of Elizabeth Bishop’s letters
Jonathan Ellis is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he has taught for over 20 years. Most of my academic career has focused on the…
Diverse literature in schools 3
Diverse literature in schools in Wales and the wider UK By Dr Sarah Olive, Communication and Culture, Aston University (cont…) Our research shows that teachers in Wales are motivated…
Diverse literature in schools 2
‘Diverse literature in schools in Wales and the wider UK’ Dr Sarah Olive, Communication and Culture, Aston University (cont…) However, much existing work in the UK focuses…
Diverse literature in schools in Wales and the wider UK
Diverse literature in schools in Wales and the wider UK By Dr Sarah Olive, Communication and Culture, Aston University English creates new readers. English also creates resources…
Books That Matter: Just Kids by Patti Smith
Shiksha Thard Goldsmiths, University of London, BA Fine Arts This book has changed my perspective on being an artist. I was introduced to Patti Smith by my…
Books That Matter: The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Maria-Sabina De Souza Goldsmiths, University of London, BA English with Creative Writing The Deep by Rivers Solomon is a beautifully written novella that’s driven by the traumatic history…
Books That Matter: Feluda by Satyagit Ray
Ira Bhattacharjee BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I first encountered the works of Satyajit Ray as a child who mostly consumed English authors and…
Books That Matter: White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Yasmina Snyder BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I find myself returning annually to Janet Fitch’s White Oleander, a novel about a young protagonist, Astrid,…
Books That Matter: Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Lee Mayer BA English with Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London I bought my copy of Angels in America at the National Theatre Bookshop shortly after I…
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…
Practicality and Magic: Mentoring, Poetry, and Community Practice
Professor Will May (University of Southampton) reflects on the stories that poets tell about the people who make them poets. Will’s AHRC Fellowship, Invisible Mentors, explored the role,…
Literature and community
Professor Nicky Marsh (University of Southampton) In this blog Professor Nicky Marsh, from the University of Southampton, introduces March’s theme of ‘communities’. There are as many forms of community as…
A Reading List on Reading.
Professor Ben Davies (University of Southern Denmark) A Reading List on Reading. Much of my recent research focuses on the relations between reading, readers, and time use, both inside and…
‘Death of Reading’?: There’s no real war between print and digital media
Dr JT Welsch (University of York) I keep reading that reading is a dying pastime. Every day, a new study shames our shrinking attention spans, or a professor moans that…
Reading Matters: Middlemarch
Professor Gail Marshall (University of Reading) Reading Matters: Middlemarch The material book I am exceptionally lucky to have on my shelves a first edition of Middlemarch, the very generous…
Two books changed my life.
Dr Rebecca Fisher (English Association) Two books changed my life. As a teenager, I read A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden, and something fundamental shifted in the way books…
Really reading
Professor Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) We live in what’s called an ‘attention economy’: Insta, YouTube, TikTok and all the other sites want our eyes on them. They want our attention.…
Reading is a very complex word
Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway University of London) Reading is a very complex word. In educational discourse, it’s used in three ways which are overlapping but can, irritatingly, work against each…
What Next? What Now? – Some Ideas for Reading and Taking Steps
What Next? What Now? – Some Ideas for Reading and Taking Steps By Ralph Pite (ralph.pite@bristol.ac.uk) Here are… Five Top Sixes (and a Last Hurrah) I hope they may…
Listening to the natural world and hearing how it used to sound.
Listening to the natural world and hearing how it used to sound. By Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell The negative effects of noise on mental as well as physical…
Literature and the Industrial Revolution
Eco-anxiety is connected to feelings of isolation: not only a sense of disconnect from the vanishing natural world but also in terms of time. The future seems less and…
IMAGINING THE NATURAL WORLD
By Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP and, since 2025, the first Professor of Practice in Environmental Sustainability at the University of Sussex, says why English…
Rewilding and / or Farming
By Hannah Green Environmentalism focussed to start with on wilderness – on protecting areas still untouched by human activity. That was always questionable: describing somewhere as ‘untouched’ is a…
Kite-flying in the Anthropocene
By Michael Malay Michael Malay’s Late Light won the Wainwright Prize in 2024. Here, Michael introduces this book ‘about falling in love with vanishing things’: Instagram And…
Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift
Teaching It – 1: English Is A Gift Sarah Dukes, English teacher at The Chase School, Malvern, Worcestershire Sarah Dukes is an English teacher at The Chase School,…
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach
The Sea, The Sea – 2: Close Reading on the Beach Dr Rachel Murray, Literature and the Environment (University of Bristol) Something that makes English studies distinctive is…
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes
‘Voices of the Future’ – teaching on treescapes Dr David Cooper & Professor Kate Pahl, Place Writing (Manchester Metropolitan University) It’s widely recognised how important trees are, not only globally…
The Sea, the Sea! – 1
The Sea, the Sea! – 1 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) ‘The river is within us, the sea is all…
#EnglishCreates: Futures 2026
The English Creates campaign kicks off again for 2026 with an emphasis on futures and the way in which English (in all its forms and disciplines) engages with a…
Literary Studies and the Seabed
Literary Studies and the Seabed Dr Laurence Publicover, Associate Professor in Literature and Oceanic Studies (University of Bristol) ‘Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from…
Venturing Out – 3
By Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) My first attempts to bring the environment into my teaching of English turned out to be moves away – into nature reserves miles…
VENTURING OUT – 2
VENTURING OUT – 2 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) This is the RSPB reserve at Ham Wall in Somerset…
VENTURING OUT – 1
VENTURING OUT – 1 Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) We were teaching an undergraduate course, ‘Writing the Anthropocene’, and reading…
THE GRAPHS DON’T WORK
THE GRAPHS DON’T WORK Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) Climate change is all about numbers: 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming; 425…
ENGLISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ENGLISH AND THE ENVIRONMENT Professor Ralph Pite, Twentieth Century Poetry and Romantic Period writing (University of Bristol) The word ‘January’ is from the Roman god, Janus – god…
Winter OGM 2025 Programme released
OGM Members of University English meet online in December each year for an Ordinary General Meeting. The main purpose of the meeting is to approve accounts for the past financial…
ESSE 2026 Call for Individual Papers Open
The 18th ESSE Conference 31st August – 4th September 2026 Santiago de Compostela, Spain The 18th European Society for the Study of English Conference 2026 will take place at…
New University English Funding Opportunity 2025
University English Funding Opportunity 2025 Introduction and Context University English is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity open to all current members. In recognition of reduced…
Updated infographic and new Facebook page!
Good news: The latest Data for English Degree Graduates shows comparable employment and wage outcomes to Business, Law and STEM subjects and higher wage growth over 3 years. Download the…
National campaign highlights the public impact of research in English departments
Universities and higher education institutions across the country are joining together on a national campaign to highlight the public impact of English literature research. #EnglishCreates will showcase some of…
Join University English’s national campaign to highlight the public impact of research in English departments
University English is launching a national campaign to highlight the public impact of English research. English departments at UK higher education institutes are impacting the society and economy in their…
The SHAPE of research impact
In 2023, the British Academy, in association with the Academy of Social Sciences, commissioned a team of researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (University of Oxford) to carry…
English: Shared Futures 2025, University of York
To register for the conference and view its exciting provisional programme of salons, panels, roundtables and events, visit the English: Shared Futures 2025 website Please be aware that the programme…
Portsmouth academic named as new chair of University English
Dr Ben Davies will leverage his English expertise to highlight the importance of language and literature studies Dr Ben Davies, an Associate Professor in Literature and Culture at the University…
2026 ESSE Conference (Santiago de Compostela) Call for Contributions
The ESSE Conference will take place 31st August – 4th September, 2026, in Santiago de Compostela. The first deadlines are (31 August – 4 September 2026 in Santiago de…
[ex-] HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG: Why We Must Inspire Students to Study English Beyond A-Level*
Why We Must Inspire Students to Study English Beyond A-Level* English feels like part of the fabric of educational life. It is a subject that has been drawing young people through…
[ex-] HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S BLOG: English Degrees Help English Students Change the World
English Degrees Help English Students Change the World* It seems at the moment that each week brings news of at least one more university entering into a ‘restructuring’ exercise intended somehow…
University English AGM 2024
Programme Outline Click on Links for shared materials. Full Agenda University English Conference and Annual General Meeting 2024 Business Meeting Notes University English Conference and Annual General Meeting 2024 22-23…
English: Shared Futures,- University of York, 3rd – 5th July 2025
We are delighted to announce that the fourth biannual English: Shared Futures conference is to be held at University of York 3rd-5th July, 2025. English: Shared Futures 2025 builds on…
OGM 2024 Recording and Business Minutes Available
Thanks to all who came and contributed to the University English Ordinary General Meeting this year. The notes on the Business Meeting minutes are available on the OGM page with…
Decolonising the Discipline Call for New Working Group Members
Decolonising the Discipline, a collaborative enterprise between IES, the English Association, and University English, has a call for new members of the working group. See here. Please do encourage colleagues and…
‘English Literature course has consistently achieved excellent metrics in student satisfaction, league table rankings, and research quality’: UE, EA and IES Letter of protest and support for English at Canterbury Christ Church
University English, The English Association and the Institute of English Studies write to ‘express our dismay at plans to close the English Literature course at Canterbury Christ Church’ and to…
Action On AI Workshop Resources
Action On is a series of free English Shared Futures satellite events tackling issues effecting the disciplines of English, Linguistics and Creative Writing. On 8th November, University English and…
Decolonising the Discipline: Past, Present and Future in the #EnglishCreates week
Anshuman Mondal and Katherine Baxter Decolonising the Discipline online talk for the #Englishcreates campaign led by University English. Anshuman and Katherine reflected on the beginnings of our network Decolonising…
Writing in a pandemic (ESF 2020)
Writing in a pandemic Scott Thurston, interviewed by Malika Booker Scott Thurston discusses ‘A Hard Grief’, his collection of twelve sonnets that stand testament to his creative outpourings during the Covid…
Caring For Our Discipline During Covid
Caring For Our Discipline During Covid Panel 1: Corona Time: Reading During the Pandemic This presentation will report on the results of a collaborative project that’s been running over…
Teachers in Conversation: Barbara Bleiman and Rachel Roberts
Barbara Bleiman and Rachel Roberts in conversation Contributors Barbara Bleiman is one of the most deeply-informed, thoughtful and influential commentators on teaching English in the country. She was Co-Director of…
The Research Excellence Framework 2021
The Research Excellence Framework Professor Greg Walker in conversation with Professor Gail Marshall and Dr Sally Barnden.
Future Perfect: How applying Linguistics in the real world moves the discipline forward
Future Perfect: How applying Linguistics in the real world moves the discipline forward Session description David Adger, Jennifer Smith, and Devyani Sharma each describe linguistics resources that they have created…
The Discipline in 2020
The Discipline in 2020 Contributors Professor Clare A. Lees, FEA, is the Director of the Institute of English Studies and Professor of Medieval Literature, School of Advanced Study, University…
Working Group on GCSE English Reform: Report and Recommendations
The Working Group on GCSE English Reform was set up by the English Association and University English in response to the very widespread disquiet in the discipline about the current…
The English Association’s Higher Education Committee, the Institute of English Studies, and University English have responded to the REF2029 Consultation on Open Access.
The English Association’s Higher Education Committee, the Institute of English Studies, and University English have responded to the REF2029 Consultation on Open Access. With huge thanks to Professor Greg Walker…
‘‘Turning over a new leaf’: the Arts and Humanities in climate change education’
This Plenary Lecture by Professor Ralph Pite (University of Bristol) is to mark the launch of the new School of Humanities at the University of Reading and is in support…
Elizabeth Bowen Birthday Lecture: ‘Treading on Bowen’s Grave – Writing the Last Day at Bowen’s Court’
This Elizabeth Bowen birthday lecture is in support of the English Creates Campaign for the English Degree. Eibhear Walshe is the Director of Creative Writing and a senior lecturer in…
English Creates Employment FAQS
You Can Study the literature, language and creative writing you love to gain the futureproof skills you need for life, work and change. Make a difference through the choices you…
Why Study English? by the English Association
Are you a 6th form student considering the English degree? Or a teacher wishing to express the value of studying English at University? The English Association has put together this information…
Gail Marshall tells EMC why you should study English at degree
“People are not necessarily up-to-date with their information, and may not know how much English has changed over the years, how it prepares students for employment afterwards, but also…
Overview on Creative Industry employment
Britain’s creative industries continue to grow, surpassing other sectors of the economy. In 2015, the contribution of creative industries to the British economy reached 87.4 billion pounds. Read the Creative…
What are the current debates about English getting wrong?
There is renewed scrutiny over the value of an English degree. Four professors separate fact from fiction. Read it WONKHE’s article here.
18 Good Reasons for Doing an English Degree
If you’re looking for ways to encourage your students to study English at degree level, or to understand the value of the subject at all levels, then Barbara Bleiman from…
What an English degree did for me
As UK universities close their English literature courses and Rishi Sunak wages war on degrees that ‘don’t increase earning potential’, The Guardian celebrates 40 influential graduates and talk to some of…
STORYCRAFT: The importance of narrative and narrative skills in business
Click here to view full report
The University English Book Prize is open for submissions!
The University English Book Prize is open for submissions! This year, the University English Book Prize 2024 will accept applications across two periods for two prizes. This is to ‘catch…
Joint Letter in Support of Language and Linguistics at the University of Kent
23rd February 2024 Read UE’s joint letter with English Association and the Institute for English Studies, and University English, opposing redundancies at the University of Kent and offering to meet…
Chair of UE speaks to EMC Magazine about #EnglishCreates
Gail Marshall, Chair of University English, speaks to the EMC Magazine about the new #EnglishCreates campaign to inform A Level students about the realities of doing an English degree.
Our joint statement on Oxford Brookes
Joint statement from University English, the English Association, and the Institute for English Studies on threatened job losses at Oxford Brookes. OBU letter 12.2023 EA+IES+UE
#EnglishCreates Campaign Week
Coming Soon! A week of scheduled campaign action and activity coordinated across UK Higher Education English Departments, plus friends and allies. Dates: 3rd – 7th June 2024 Please see the…
UE Book Prize Open for Submissions!
We are pleased to announce the opening of this year’s University English Book Prize, a £200 prize awarded annually for the best scholarly book by an early-career academic working in an English department affiliated to University English. The…
How do we express the value of English?
Members may be interested in this English Association event that invites reflections from colleagues and former students in higher education, secondary education, primary education, award body management, private business, and…
Speaking for English: Literature and the Environment
The latest Speaking for English collaboration between UE, IES, and EA is on Literature and the Environment. Book here for the online event on December 1st.
Research Excellence Framework 2028
Consultation following publication of Initial Decisions Document
Speaking for English Studies in UK Higher Education 1
The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a series of workshops titled ‘Speaking for English Studies’ aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and influence, both within our institutions and across the sector more widely.
Speaking for English Studies in UK Higher Education 2
The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a series of workshops titled ‘Speaking for English Studies’ aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and influence, both within our institutions and across the sector more widely.
Speaking for English: Economic Impact
The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a series of workshops titled ‘Speaking for English Studies’ aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and influence, both within our institutions and across the sector more widely.
Speaking for English: Health and Wellbeing
The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a series of workshops titled ‘Speaking for English Studies’ aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and influence, both within our institutions and across the sector more widely.
Speaking for English: Literature and Technology
The English Association, University English and the Institute for English Studies are co-hosting a series of workshops titled ‘Speaking for English Studies’ aimed at building capacity within the discipline for leadership and influence, both within our institutions and across the sector more widely.
Toolkit for Heads of Departments
The English Association have prepared a toolkit for Heads of Department and their teams which offers advice on how to make a case for English with senior management and to defend the subject when jobs cuts are threatened. It includes links to useful reports and resources from the EA, the British Academy and other organisations.
Key Areas of Influence and Constitution
Key Areas of Influence Because of its broad representation and policy of active consultation with members, University English has considerable influence in key areas of educational policy. For example: University…
The Research Excellence Framework (REF)
University English’s Consultation response and recommendations for REF2021
REF Headlines for Sub-Panel 27: English Language and Literature
University English, the English Association, and the Institute of English Studies co-sign the REF Headlines Report for English Studies, attesting to the robust health of the discipline in the UK.
AQA Subject Benchmark Consultation Review
University English is in consultation for the 2022-23 review of the Subject Benchmark Statement for English.
UE and the Open Access Publication Debate
University English’s response to the recommendations of ‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’
Public Statements
Public Statements University English actively engages with reports and data produced by the Government that influences changes in HE English. We work with societies to mitigate and defend against negative…
Employing Temporary Staff – Code of Practice
UE has presented recommendations relating to the employment of temporary academic staff.
Our policy and consultation pages include useful reports and consultations that lay out many of the current concerns in the discipline and our defence of the subject.
English Resources
English Resources University English creates and gathers resources and materials for HE English departments and academics to use in teaching, open days, consultations, strategy and campaigning. If you have a…
Consultations & Reports
Consultations & Reports University English is the main professional body consulted by funding bodies and other agencies when they wish to gauge the views of the English Subject community. Read…
Spring Conference and AGM
AGM 2024 will be held at Oxford Brookes University on 22nd-23rd March 2024, including a Keynote by a distinguished practitioner.
Subject Leaders Networking
The event brings together a diverse group of academic leaders (across regions, types of university) who have strategic responsibilities in English language, literature and creative writing from a range of universities.
Newletters: #13, Summer 2000 – #21, Winter 2007
Issue 21 – Winter 2007 Issue 20 – Spring 2006 Issue 19 – Spring 2005 Issue 18 – Winter 2004 Issue 17 – Spring 2003 Issue 16 – Spring 2002…
University English AGM 2004
University English AGM 2004 Panel and Speakers Panel: Teaching Contemporary Literature Presentation: The RAE Review and RAE 2008 (Tom Sastry, HEFCE) Guest Speaker: Peter Kemp Report: Adolphe Haberer, President of…
University English AGM 2005
University English AGM 2005 Panel and Speakers Panel: CETLs and What They Can Do For Us Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel Presentation: Widening Participation (Mary Stuart) ESSE report: Lachlan…
University English AGM 2006
University English AGM 2006 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Research Funding in the USA Panel 2: The Viability of Pedagogic Research Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel Academic Keynote: John…
University English AGM 2007
University English AGM 2007 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Developing Early Career Researchers Panel 2: Teaching English Language Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel Report: Lachlan Mackenzie, Treasurer of ESSE…
University English AGM 2008
University English AGM 2008 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Teaching and Research Panel 2: Teaching Creative Writing Panel 3: The REF, Metrics and the Future of English Studies Report: Fernando…
University English AGM 2009
University English AGM 2009 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Beyond the RAE Panel 2: Early Career Lecturers Panel 3: Defining the Literary 2 Academic Keynote: Jonathan Sawday Reading: Jackie Kay
University English AGM 2010
University English AGM 2010 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: The Postgraduate Experience in English Panel 2: Teaching Creative Writing Guest Speaker: David Sweeney, Director of Research HEFCE Academic Keynote: David…
University English AGM 2011
University English AGM 2011 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Drama, Theatre Studies and English Panel 2: Impact and REF 2014 Guest Speaker: Adam Roberts, President of British Academy Academic Keynote:…
University English AGM 2012
University English AGM 2012 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Literature and Music Panel 2: The Role of Subject Associations Panel 3: British Literature Worldwide (Susie Nicklin, British Council) Guest Speaker:…
University English AGM 2013
University English AGM 2013 Panel and Speakers Panel 1: Open Access Publishing and Learned Societies Panel 2: A Level Debate: Recent Developments (inc. Adrian Barlow, Chair of EA) Panel 3:…
Toolkits & Resources
The resources page includes links to other useful information and shared resources from UE members that may be of help to subject leaders and colleagues. Many of these resources are produced for the UE AGM and OGM and kindly shared by members.
Executive Committee
Executive Committee Previous Chairs Ben Davies, 2025 – 2026 Gail Marshall, 2022 – 2025 Alex Thomson, 2017 – 2022 Susan Bruce, 2014 – 2017 David Duff, 2011 – 2014 Linda…
AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships Phase 2
University English’s response to the AHRC DTP2 Consultation on issues such as mass funding, collaboration, and caps.
The Limits of the Numerical
Read Dr Christopher Newfield’s paper on the limits of the numerical-metrics and the Humanities in Higher Education.
BIS Green Paper: UE’s Response
University English’s response to the BIS Green Paper, ‘Fulfilling Our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice.
Brexit Impact Response
Our submitted evidence to the Education Committee Inquiry concerning “the Impact of Exiting the European Union on Higher Education”.
The Open Access Monograph Group
Read Professor Shearer West’s Presentation on Open Access Monograph’s from the 2017 AGM
Action against cuts at Portsmouth University
University English, the English Association, and the Institute of English Studies co-authored letter to the VC of Portsmouth University.
Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning
Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning In Storylistening, Sarah Dillon and Claire Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering…
Why Study English Language or Linguistics at A Level and Beyond
Why Study English Language or Linguistics at A Level and Beyond Erika Darics, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, explains what the study of language has to offer,…
From Shakespeare’s Stage to the Digital Page: Why Study English Literature?
From Shakespeare’s Stage to the Digital Page: Why Study English Literature? This brilliant piece by Professor Katy Shaw passionately makes the case for English as a subject at University…
Early Career Researcher’s Event 2015 Programme
Early Career Researcher’s Event 2015 The event will take place 5-7pm on the 8th and 10-5pm on the 9th in the Anatomy Theatre and Museum at King’s College London. Friday…
The 2015 Benchmark Statement from the QAA
The 2015 Benchmark Statement from the QAA The QAA is working with experts from the Creative Writing subject community to produce guidance on what a Creative Writing degree should look…
A Level Creative Writing
A Level Creative Writing Chair Susan Bruce writes in defence of Creative Writing A Level in the Times Higher: ‘Creative writing is an increasingly important player in a suite of…
USS Pensions Imposed Cuts
Open Letter to Alistair Jarvis from subject associations and learned societies across the Arts and Humanities.
University English AGM 2016
University English AGM 2016 AGM 2016 Business Meeting Minutes Held at St Anne’s Oxford in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre from the afternoon of Monday 11th April till Tuesday 12th April. The programme…
University English Book Prize Winner 2010
University English Book Prize Winner 2010 Kevin Killeen Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2009)
University English Book Prize Winner 2011
University English Book Prize Winner 2011 William May Stevie Smith and Authorship (Oxford University Press, 2010)
University English Book Prize Winner 2012
University English Book Prize Winner 2012 Gregory Leadbetter, Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
University English Book Prize Winner 2013
University English Book Prize Winner 2013 Rowan Boyson, Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
University English Book Prize 2014
University English Book Prize 2014 Chair’s Report The three shortlisted volumes were drawn from a strong set of entries. The excellent research published over the past year by early career…
University English Book Prize 2015
University English Book Prize 2015 Chair’s Report The majority of the 15 entries this year were in literary studies. The works ranged from the 16th century up to 21st century…
University English Book Prize 2016
University English Book Prize 2016 There were twelve entries for the 2016 University English Book Prize. As the comments below on the shortlisted books suggest, the judges found each of…
University English Book Prize 2017
University English Book Prize 2017 We were delighted to have an exceptionally strong shortlist for the 2017 Book Prize. As the panel’s comments on each book below indicate, the quality…
University English Book Prize 2018
University English Book Prize 2018 Chair’s Report: We had the largest number of entries on record this year – 18 in total – and shortlisted 4, all of which had…
University English Book Prize 2019
University English Book Prize 2019 Winner Emily Senior, The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination 1764-1834 (Cambridge University Press) This is a compelling work, which clearly succeeds in its ambition to shift the…
University English Book Prize 2020
University English Book Prize 2020 It gives us great pleasure to announce that Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol) has won the 2020 University English Book Prize for her monograph Edmund Spenser…
University English Book Prize 2021
University English Book Prize 2021 The University English Book Prize for 2021 was awarded to Asha Rogers for State-Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945, published by Oxford University Press. The judging…
University English Book Prize Winner & Shortlist 2022
University English Book Prize 2022 We are delighted to announce the winner for this year’s Book Prize. Francesca Brooks, Poet of the Medieval Modern. Reading the Early Medieval Library with David…
University English Book Prize Winner & Short List #1 2023
2023 Winner Noreen Masud, Stevie Smith and the Aphorism. Hard Language (Oxford University Press, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/stevie-smith-and-the-aphorism-9780192895899?cc=gb&lang=en& This book provides a significant scholarly contribution to our understanding of Stevie Smith’s poetry. …
University English Book Prize Winner & Shortlist #2 2023
Daniel Matore, The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023) Institutional Affiliation: York This is a brilliantly rigorous and meticulously researched book about typography…
University English Book Prize Winner & Shortlist 2024
Harriet Soper, The Life Course in Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Institutional affiliation: University of Bristol This is an excellent book which shows how Old English…
Threatened Job Losses at Birkbeck
University English, the English Association and the Institute of English Studies joint response.
