Making an Impact on Culture

How can we share such resources effectively, so that local and national communities can benefit from what we have to offer?

This session will be led by Professor Dinah Birch, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement

It will give participants a clearer understanding of the nature of the university’s activities in this area, and of how they can contribute, and benefit, both in this period of immediate challenge, and in the longer term.

Session outcomes for participants:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the university’s cultural offer confidently and with a clear understanding of its actual and potential benefits

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of the offer

Presenter:

Professor Dinah Birch CBE, BA, MA, DPhil, FRSA, FEA

Professor Dinah Birch is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Cultural Engagement and Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She chaired REF2014 Sub-panel 29 (English Literature and Language) and was Deputy Chair of Main Panel D (Arts and Humanities), and is Chair of Main Panel D in REF 2021. External roles include chairing the Advisory Council for the University of London’s IES, and chairing the Editorial Board of The Conversation (an international online journal for the dissemination of research: http://theconversation.com/uk).

Dinah has published widely on Victorian fiction and poetry, and on the work of the critic John Ruskin. Her books include Ruskin’s Myths (1988), Ruskin and Gender (edited with Francis O’Gorman), and Our Victorian Education (2007). She is the general editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature (7th ed., 2009). She has edited John Ruskin: Selected Writings (2004), and has published new editions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (2011) and Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? (2012) and The Small House at Allington (2014) with Oxford University Press. She served as a member of the Man Booker prize panel in 2012. She is a regular broadcaster and contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books. She is President of the British Association for Victorian Studies.

The following elements of the Making an Impact 2020 Framework are relevant to this session:

Impact clusters:

Making an Impact on Culture;

Making an Impact on Society or Quality of Life

Knowledge and Skills Axis:

Research Partnerships;

Working with the Public and Third Sector;

Public and Community Engagement

The Researcher Development Framework (RDF) attributes developed during this session are relevant to the following sub-domains:

Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities: A2, A3

Personal Effectiveness: B1, B3

Engagement, Influence and Impact: D1, D2, D3

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