Media directory

This is a directory of academic staff who are available, through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on their areas of expertise. 
  • Professor James Daybell
    Associate Dean (Research)
    • History
    • Tudor history
    • Gender history
    • History (women)
    • Letter writing
    • British history
    • Renaissance literature
    • European history
    School/Division: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
  • Dr Harry Bennett
    Associate Professor (Reader) in History
    • History
    • World War Two
    • American history
    • Royal Navy
    • Nazi Germany
    • Maritime history
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Dr Elaine Murphy
    Associate Professor In History
    • Maritime history
    • Naval history
    • British Civil Wars
    • Women in the Royal Navy
    • Oliver Cromwell
    • Sir Francis Drake
    • Modern Irish history
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Professor Michael Punt
    Professor of Art and Technology
    • Cinema history
    • Technology history
    • Experimental film and video
    • Culture and creativity
    • Visual culture
    School/Division: School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Professor Kim Stevenson
    Emeritus Professor
    • Crime history
    • Sexual offences legislation
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Mr Dean Owens
    Lecturer - Illustration with Drawing
    • Drawing
    • Drawing for illustration
    • History of drawing
    School/Division: School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Dr Miriam Darlington
    Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
    • Contemporary nature writing
    • Creative non-fiction
    • The natural history of owls in Europe
    • Otters in literature
    • The natural history of otters
    • Otter tracking
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Dr Simon Topping
    Associate Professor
    • History
    • American history
    • American civil rights
    • American popular culture
    • Black US soldiers and World War Two
    • American politics/elections/Republican Party
    • Northern Ireland and World War Two
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Mr Peter Quinn Davis
    Associate Head of School - International
    • Design
    • Design culture
    • Design history
    • Sustainable design
    • Transformative design
    • Art-architecture design
    School/Division: School of Art, Design and Architecture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
  • Dr Kathryn Napier Gray
    Associate Professor (Reader) in Early American Literature
    • Natural history
    • Print culture
    • Transatlantic
    • Colonialisation
    • New England Studies
    • The Mayflower
    • Indigenous studies
    • American literature
    School/Division: School of Society and Culture (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

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