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Professor Katy Shaw

Professor

Department: Humanities

Katy Shaw is Director of the UKRI/ and Professor of writing and publishing. Her research interests include devolution and culture, diversity and inclusion in the creative industries (the subject of her 2022 ) and cultural policy making. She is the author of the APPG Inquiry report that set out policy recommendations, many of which have since been adopted by UK government, on how to rebuild rebalance and recover cultural production post-covid. She sat as a commissioner on the and the Gordon Brown Union Commission. Her policy consultancy focuses on the role of culture-led R&D, innovation and the role of HEIs and further education in cultural partnership working. As Professor and journalist she is the author of , four edited collections as well as journal articles and essays on contemporary British literature and is the author of the British Council ‘Write Now: Teaching 21st-century Literature Globally’ report. She regularly writes for the New Statesman. She can be found on Twitter

Katy Shaw

Campus Address

103 Lipman Building



Contemporary Literature

Twenty-first Century Genre Fiction

Working Class Writing

Hauntology

Comedy

Katherine Greenwood Common People: Working-Class Writing in the Twenty-First Century Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 25/06/2024

  • English Literature PhD June 09 2008
  • PGCE September 06 2006
  • English MA September 06 2005
  • English Literature MRes September 06 2004
  • English BA (Hons) June 02 2003
  • PGCE (HE and Post-Compulsory) PGCE 2005
  • Senior Fellow of HEA


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