Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Creative Industries
Publishing
Creative Economy
Contemporary Writing
Literature
Cultural Studies
Heritage
Contemporary Literature
Twenty-first Century Genre Fiction
Working Class Writing
Hauntology
Comedy
Katy Shaw is Director of the UKRI/AHRC Creative Communities programme 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 TED talk) and cultural policy making. She is the author of the APPG Inquiry report ‘The Case for Culture’ 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 LGA Culture Commission 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 five monographs, 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 @profkatyshaw
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English Literature, PhD, PhD English Literature, Lancaster University
Award Date: 9 Jun 2008
PGCE, PGCE, Northumbria University
Award Date: 6 Sept 2006
English, MA, MA English, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 6 Sept 2005
English Literature, MRes, MRes English Literary Research, Lancaster University
Award Date: 6 Sept 2004
English, BA (Hons), BA Hons English and Education, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 2 Jun 2003
BACLS: British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies
2016 → …
Professor, C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings
2015 → …
UniEnglish: National Subject Association
2015 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
Shaw, K. (Chair)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Shaw, K. (Chair)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Shaw, K. (Chair)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Shaw, K. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council
1/05/22 → 30/04/25
Project: Research
Shaw, K. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council
1/05/25 → 30/04/27
Project: Research
Shaw, K. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council
1/04/23 → 30/09/24
Project: Research