Research
Centre for Culture and Heritage
Who we are
The Centre for Culture and Heritage is comprised of innovators passionate about showcasing our cultural heritage - past, present and future. Our mission is to be the hub of Creative Suffolk, leading contemporary research in the Arts and Humanities, linked to community engagement and impact across East Anglia and the wider world.
What we do
We pride ourselves on working with stakeholders on cultural projects that link to our commitment to being a transformational Civic ºüÀêÊÓƵ. We engage in research and knowledge exchange that has social value and impact. We prioritise community co-creation partnerships with cultural and heritage bodies via joint projects, exhibits, training, consultancy, and heritage development.
We are focused on how cultural heritage can transform the health and well-being of individuals and groups in society. Through creative and cultural projects, underpinned by the rigour of world-leading scholarship, we celebrate sustainable heritage emphasising people, place and positive cultural change.
Vision
- Be a leading hub of creative excellence for innovative and collaborative research and creative projects in the Arts Humanities
- Inspire a pride in our history and culture through research, exhibitions, events, education and outreach activities
- Work with communities, individuals, and organisations in order to support the culture and heritage of our region
- Foster and promote a passion for the heritage and culture of East Anglia and beyond
- Engage with international partners and contribute to being global citizens
- Be the hub for Creative Suffolk
PhD's in Creative Writing/English
Name: Anne McGee
Subject: History
Working Title: The reality and representation of female criminality in rural Suffolk between 1780 and 1820
Name: Andrew Worrall
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: The Inheritance of Peter Tye, a novel. The archives as a framework for historical fiction
Name: Amanda Markwell
Subject: History
Working Title: “Such methods of barbarism” An exploration of the violence towards women during the British campaign for women’s suffrage, 1906-1915
Name: Jayd Green
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: The Stranger Sea: a novel. A Rewilding of Nature Writing in the context of eco-criticism and environmental activism
Name: Muriel Moore-Smith
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: H’s Code, a. novel. A creative re-assembly of a hidden life. Writing Historical Fiction and Family Memory.
Name: Richard Glass
Subject: History
Working Title: Suffolk Agrarian Change 1840 - 1875
Name: Kavari Woodward
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: A Memoir of Marginalisation and Exclusion: Exploring the Quest for Identity and Belonging Within my Bi-Racial Family
Name: Molly Britton
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: The Muse of Vienna, a novel: Seeking truth in biographical research
Name: Adetomiwa (Tommy) Ademuyiwa
Subject: English/Linguistics
Working Title: Language Acquisition and Learning amongst students with special educational needs towards achieving academic excellence. A case study of Federal College of Education, Oyo, Nigeria
Name: Rose Dawn Gant
Subject: English Literature
Working Title: ‘For hope and sadness mingle in his heart’: Loss, Grief and Hero-Worship in the works of Branwell Brontë
Name: David Stone
Subject: Art and Creative Writing
Working Title: Ghosts in the Landscape: Commemorating the Forgotten: developing art practice and creative writing to investigate the realism both forms seek to reach.
Name: Michelle Pocock
Subject: Art with Creative Writing
Working Title: A phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of long-term illness as a transformative process in memoir and photography
Name: Laura May
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: No Expectations: how visual images can act as a catalyst for creation and build a body of ekphrastic poetry
Name: Zoe Gilbert
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: Enchantment and the Folk Fantastic in short fiction
Name: Charlotte Yule
Subject: English Literature
Working Title: Great Women’s Houses: Building Becoming in the Lives and Works of Woolf, Du Maurier, Christie and Winn
Name: Loretta MacInnes
Subject: Creative Writing
Working Title: Fractured: A multi-dimensional memoir of the impact of a rare disease diagnosis on a family
Name: Caroline Roberts
Subject: English Literature
Working Title: Peril in the House: Investigating motherhood in the works of Agatha Christie
Student Quotes
- Gill Lowe – Visting Fellow in English
- Ashley Hickson-Lovence – Visting Fellow in Creative Writing
- Zoe Gilbert – Senior Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing
- Jamie Bernthal-Hooker – Visiting Fellow in English and Creative Writing
- Cristian Ilbury – Visiting Fellow in Linguistics
- Charlotte Newson - Visiting Professor of Arts