This is a joint announcement with the University Council for Languages: see the UCFL announcement page for more.

UCFL is delighted to announce the appointment of Olivia Glaze as postdoctoral researcher on a project to take forward recommendations from the Languages and Policy: Building Collaborations between Academics and Policymakers report. In particular, she will work on a project to produce for policymakers short, readable summaries of research in languages. As well as creating such summaries, Olivia will produce templates and models for researchers.

Olivia Glaze

Dr Olivia Glaze is a Medical Humanities and Gender Studies scholar, specialising in contemporary Lusophone literature, film, and photography. She was awarded her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2022 and, alongside her MHRA-funded postdoctoral position, is currently an AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the project ‘Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in Spanish and European Literatures and Cultures’ at the University of Exeter. Olivia’s research interests span representations of illness, trauma, and disability; coloniality and the legacies of imperialism; and contemporary women’s life-writing.

Commenting on her new post, which she will begin on 1 October 2024, Olivia said, ‘I am delighted to accept the position of MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher and to collaborate with UCFL in their continued commitment to policy engagement. This role provides a unique opportunity to help bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers and showcase the significant contributions that language research can make to policy development and design.’

This post has been very generously funded by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). The MHRA exists to promote high-quality scholarship in English and the Modern Languages. It does this by publishing journals and monographs and by supporting major research projects. Speaking on behalf of the MHRA, Barbara Burns (Company Secretary) said, ‘The Association is delighted to fund this post as part of its contribution to strategic initiatives in the field’.

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Honorary Policy Advisor for UCFL, said, ‘Charles Forsdick and I are excited to work with Liv on this project which we hope will support researchers in translating research in Modern Languages into forms suitable for busy policymakers and other practitioners, who don’t have time often to read long academic articles or monographs.’

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