Speaking for English Studies in UK HE: Literature & The Environment

Come together to understand (and celebrate) the deep social, cultural and economic impact our subject is achieving.

48% of the reach and impact produced in English between 2014 and 2020 was judged 4*’, by far the best result in the Arts and Humanities, and an outcome that belongs to all departments, large and small, across the 4 nations of the UK. With this new series of Speaking for English 2023 the English Association, Institute for English Studies and University English team up to look behind the numbers to understand what our colleagues in departments of English are achieving. We want to understand the deep social, cultural and economic impact our subject is achieving. We also want to meet (and celebrate) the people behind our 2022 impact case studies, and find out how they did it!

• Changing Practice: Bringing Arts and Humanities Perspectives on Nature, Well-Being and Environmental Crisis into New Spaces, Samantha Walton (Bath Spa)
• The Cartonera Publishing Project: Empowering Vulnerable Communities for Sustainable Social Change, Patrick O’Hare (Surrey/ St Andrews)
• Enhancing Public Understanding of the Cultural Significance of Trees, and assisting preservation of trees and woodlands (Oxford)
• Establishing a culturally & Environmentally Sensitive Arctic Tourism, Roger Norum (Leeds/Oulu, Finland)

Each individual or team has 7 mins to tell us what they did, and then we will open up for questions.

This event will take place online on Friday 1st December 2023 at 1 - 2.30pm. (Bring your lunch!)