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The long-awaited English: Shared Futures, postponed for covid reasons from 2020, was the biggest UK conference in the field of English studies this year, and brought together 350 academics, teachers, writers, publishers, and other members of our community to celebrate our discipline. There were over 80 other sessions featuring leading research from over 250 speakers…
The English Association is seeking the next General Editor of Essays and Studies, a series of annual, themed volumes, edited each year by a distinguished academic. It is published on behalf of the English Association by D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. The General Editor is responsible for commissioning volumes that are on…
“…the perception in schools is that aspects of the GCSE language especially need to change as soon as possible because it has taken a lot of life out of what used to be a very popular GCSE.”
We have drawn on the work of Kirstie Hewett (EA Primary and Early Years Education Committee Chair), Jenny Stevens, Barbara Bleiman (English and Media Centre), Andrew McCallum (English and Media Centre), Professor Robert Eaglestone (Deputy Chair of EA Higher Education Committee), Pie Corbett, Freddie Baveystock, Joe Barber, and Elizabeth Draper in writing our response. Edited…
“Another week, another media storm about course closures and ‘low value’ degrees in the arts and humanities… The news has reignited debates about both the subject and its value. So, what are these conversations – and the assumptions that underpin them – getting wrong?”
The English Association, as part of the Primary Literacy Research Collaborative, has written to the Education Ministers in all four nations and the opposition parties in England to share a research briefing on Experiences of Literacy in Lockdown: What can we learn? and to offer support in developing literacy education in primary schools that is…
Editorial Designer (freelance) £250 per day Fixed term: 9 days (7 days between 25 July and 15 August 2022 to complete specific project, thereafter ½ day per month Sept – Dec 2022) Contact: Dr Rebecca Fisher, Chief Executive Officer r.fisher@englishassociation.ac.uk Closing date: 8 July 2022 (interviews to take place online w/c 18 July, start date…
The EA’s Education Committees work to promote English Studies, nationally and internationally. They curate high quality resources, promote linked, research-informed pedagogies, and act as a forum for sharing best practice and high-quality literature for all ages. Applications close 1 September 2022. You must be a member of the English Association to be eligible. The recent…
The English Association, University English and The Institute for English Studies welcome the Overview Report for Sub-Panel 27, which attests to the robust health of the discipline in the UK, highlighting the transformational contribution being made by colleagues at every stage of career to knowledge, culture, well-being, and economic prosperity, locally, nationally, and globally, in…