Projects per year
Organisation profile
For half a century Creative Writing has proved one of our most productive and successful areas of research. Each piece of prose fiction and creative non-fiction, each poetry collection, script or dramatic production that emerges out of our school constitutes a research project informed by historical investigation, archival study or critical interrogation.
Our work in these diverse forms repeatedly extends the boundaries whereby those forms are understood and valued. Our writers also contribute important critical studies of the creative practices in which they lead the world.
Our research is taught and developed in the classroom, making us a place where ground-breaking experimental practice and practice-based research flourish. International, national and local creative writing research is enhanced by close collaboration with the National Centre for Writing, the British Centre for Literary Translation, the British Archive for Contemporary Writing and a range of international associations. Our students doing PhDs in creative and critical writing benefit from access to a sophisticated training schedule run by active practitioners who are leaders in their fields.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Nathan Ashman
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer in Crime Writing
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
- Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Tiffany Atkinson
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry)
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Trezza Azzopardi
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer
- Creative Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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A partnership for community-led health behaviour change research in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage
Hardeman, W., Gordon, J., Hanson, S., Minihane, A., Sweeting, A., Abranches, M., McNeil, J., McWatt, T., Robinson-Pant, A. & Varley, A.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/06/23 → 30/11/24
Project: Research
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The Critical Decade for Climate Change
Le Quéré, C., McNeil, J. & Tebboth, M.
1/10/21 → 30/09/27
Project: Training
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Avoiding the Housekeeping Trap: Challenges and Opportunities in a Decolonizing Project at the University of East Anglia, UK
Wang, Y., Pham, T. N., Henry, S., Simon, S., Hynes, C. & Theuerkauf, U., 11 Nov 2023, (Accepted/In press) Decolonizing Educational Knowledge : International Perspectives and Contestations. Lopez, A. & Singh, H. (eds.). Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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'Before Darkness Fell': Ian Thomson Travels in the footsteps of Eric Ambler's Spy Novels
Thomson, I., 1 Jun 2023, Slightly Foxed, Summer 2023, No 78, p. 63-69 7 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Crafting Crime Fiction
Sutton, H., Oct 2023, Manchester University Press. 285 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Prizes
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Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Grant
Robinson, S. (Recipient), 1 Sep 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023
Waters, Steve (Recipient), 19 Mar 2023
Prize: National/international honour
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Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Non-Fiction Winner
McWatt, Tessa (Recipient), 4 May 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Murder One Crime Writing Festival 2023 (Dublin)
Tom Benn (Speaker)
8 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival/Exhibition/Performance
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Historical Debuts: Writing the Past for the Present with Jacqueline Crooks, Bridget Walsh and Natalie Marlow (Noirwich Crime Writing Festival 2023)
Tom Benn (Speaker)
7 Sep 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Festival/Exhibition/Performance
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Guest speaker (reading, masterclass, q & a) on the July 2023 fiction course with Leone Ross & Julia Armfield at Arvon, Lumb Bank:
Tom Benn (Speaker)
5 Jul 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
Press/Media
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'Working Class Noir' (The Writing Life podcast, National Centre for Writing)
28/08/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Q&A with Tom Benn for NB. Magazine issue 116, Light (Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year)
12/07/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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