Zoom: December 2nd, 2022 11:00 AM – 4pm

We will have a session on working with schools with Freddie Baverstock (Harris Westminster Sixth Form), Elizabeth Draper (Chair of the English Association’s Secondary & Further Education Committee), Bob Eaglestone (Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, and Deputy Chair of the English Association’s HE Committee) and Dr Rebecca Fisher (CEO of the English Association).

We will hear from Sarah Dillon on her co-authored book Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Pubic Reasoning (https://www.storylistening.co.uk), which will look at the intersection between research and policy.

We also have a panel on working with the press and other media with David Amigoni (Chair of The Conversation and PVC at Keele), Pete Castle (External Communications & Public Relations Manager,  University of Reading) and Matthew Reisz (former THE books editor, features writer and reporter).

If you can’t make the meeting, please do feel free to send an alternate, and as we’re on-line with no real number restrictions, do please invite 1 or 2 early career colleagues to come along too.

If you’d like to look at them in advance, here are the day’s agenda and 3 documents related to Sarah Dillon’s talk: a flyer for her monograph, and two articles, ‘Public Criticism’ and ‘Storylistening: a case study in how to include the humanities in evidence provided for public reasoning’, co-authored with Claire Craig.