Past Panels and Speakers

 2013 AGM

Panel 1: Open Access Publishing and Learned Societies
Panel 2: A Level Debate: Recent Developments (inc. Adrian Barlow, Chair of EA)
Panel 3: The Future of the Taught Masters
Presentation: Briefing and Q&A on REF 2014 by English Sub-panel

 2012 OGM

Panel 1: Digital Humanities
Panel 2: English in a New Era: Strategies for Changing Times
Guest Speaker: Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research AHRC

2012 AGM

Panel 1: Literature and Music
Panel 2: The Role of Subject Associations
Panel 3: British Literature Worldwide (Susie Nicklin, British Council)
Guest Speaker: Fernando Galvan, President of ESSE
Academic Keynote: Laura Marcus

 2011 OGM

Panel 1: Art of Reviewing
Panel 2: English in the Post-Browne World
Academic Keynote: Linda Anderson

 2011 AGM

Panel 1: Drama, Theatre Studies and English
Panel 2: Impact and REF 2014
Guest Speaker: Adam Roberts, President of British Academy
Academic Keynote: David Crystal
Reading: Sean O’Brien

2010 OGM

Panel 1: Impact and the Context for English
Panel 2: Interdisciplinarity: Structures and Networks
Guest Speaker: John Tusa, ex BBC

 2010 AGM

Panel 1: The Postgraduate Experience in English
Panel 2: Teaching Creative Writing
Guest Speaker: David Sweeney, Director of Research HEFCE
Academic Keynote: David Amigoni
Reading: Jo Shapcott

2009 OGM

Panel 1: What Do We Mean by Impact in English Studies?
Panel 2: English in a World Context
Guest Speaker: Rick Rylance, Chief Executive AHRC

2009 AGM

Panel 1: Beyond the RAE
Panel 2: Early Career Lecturers
Panel 3: Defining the Literary 2
Academic Keynote: Jonathan Sawday
Reading: Jackie Kay

2008 OGM

Panel 1: Language and Linguistics Today
Panel 2: Defining the Literary 1
Guest Speaker: Shearer West, Director of Research AHRC
Academic Keynote: Ammer Hussein

2008 AGM

Panel 1: Teaching and Research
Panel 2: Teaching Creative Writing
Panel 3: The REF, Metrics and the Future of English Studies
Report: Fernando Galvan, President of ESSE
Academic Keynote: Derek Attridge

2007 OGM

Panel 1: The Future of English Postgraduate Research
Panel 2: The Future of English
Guest Speaker: Robin Jackson, Chief Executive of British Academy
Academic Keynote: Ian Small

2007 AGM

Panel 1: Developing Early Career Researchers
Panel 2: Teaching English Language
Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel
Report: Lachlan Mackenzie, Treasurer of ESSE
Academic Keynote 1: Nigel Wood
Academic Keynote 2: Ros Ballaster

2006 OGM

Panel 1: Creative Writing and Research
Panel 2: RAE 2008 and Beyond
Guest Speaker: Tony McEnery, Director of Research AHRC
Academic Keynote: Randall Stevenson

 2006 AGM

Panel 1: Research Funding in the USA
Panel 2: The Viability of Pedagogic Research
Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel
Academic Keynote: John Carey
Kate Fullbrook Lecture: Susan Manning

 2005 OGM

Panel: Composing Bids for Larger Research Projects
Presentation: RAE 2008 (Nigel Vincent, Chair of Main Panel M)
Guest Speaker 1: Warwick Gould, Director, Institute of English studies
Guest Speaker 2: Tony McEnery, Director of Research AHRC
Academic Keynote: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

2005 AGM

Panel: CETLs and What They Can Do For Us
Presentation: RAE 2008: The English Sub-Panel
Presentation: Widening Participation (Mary Stuart)
ESSE report: Lachlan Mackenzie
Academic Keynote: David Trotter
Kate Fullbrook Lecture: Patricia Duncker

2004 OGM

Panel 1: The Level One Curriculum
Presentation: Widening Participation (Bob Burgess, VC Leicester)
Guest Speaker: Manager of the RAE
Academic Keynote: Kevin Sharpe

2004 AGM

Panel: Teaching Contemporary Literature
Presentation: The RAE Review and RAE 2008 (Tom Sastry, HEFCE)
Guest Speaker: Peter Kemp
Report: Adolphe Haberer, President of ESSE
Kate Fullbrook Lecture: Helen Taylor