Professor Katy Shaw

Professor

Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

Katy Shaw is Director of the UKRI/AHRC Creative Communities programme and Professor of writing and publishing. Her research interests include devolution and culture, diversity and inclusion in the creative industries (the subject of her 2022 TED talk) and cultural policy making. She is the author of the APPG Inquiry report ‘The Case for Culture’ that set out policy recommendations, many of which have since been adopted by UK government, on how to rebuild rebalance and recover cultural production post-covid. She sat as a commissioner on the LGA Culture Commission and the Gordon Brown Union Commission. Her policy consultancy focuses on the role of culture-led R&D, innovation and the role of HEIs and further education in cultural partnership working. As Professor and journalist she is the author of five monographs, four edited collections as well as journal articles and essays on contemporary British literature and is the author of the British Council ‘Write Now: Teaching 21^st-century Literature Globally’ report. She regularly writes for the New Statesman. She can be found on Twitter @profkatyshaw

Campus Address

103 Lipman Building

Email Katy

@profkatyshaw

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Contemporary Literature

Twenty-first Century Genre Fiction

Working Class Writing

Hauntology

Comedy

Key Publications

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Blazing A Trail: Culture and Devolution in England, Shaw, K. 1 May 2024, In: IPPR Progressive Review
Common People: Breaking the Glass Ceiling in UK Publishing, Shaw, K. 29 Nov 2024, The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, Routledge
Common People: Breaking the Class Ceiling in UK Publishing, Shaw, K. 5 Dec 2024, The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, Abingdon, Taylor & Francis
Culture Bridge 2030: Towards A Culture Strategy for Newcastle, Shaw, K. Jan 2024
The Icing on the Cake? Culture, Devolution and the North East, Kippin, H., Shaw, K. Mar 2024
The Power of Partnership: Northumbria University x New Writing North, Shaw, K., Malcolm, C. 26 Apr 2024
The role of universities in supporting arts and culture, Henley, D., Shaw, K. 4 Jul 2024
Writers and Their Work: David Peace, Shaw, K. 1 Jul 2024
A Writing Chance: adjusting the lens on social class and diversity in the UK publishing industry , Shaw, K. 19 Oct 2023, In: Creative Industries Journal
A New Britain: Renewing our Democracy and Rebuilding our Economy: Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future, Shaw, K. 1 Dec 2022

Current and Recent Projects

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AHRC Creative Communities: Extension 2025-27, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 01/05/25 - 30/04/27, £916,836.00
Culture Connect: Open Access Data Observatory for Devolved Culture Informatics, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), 01/04/24 - 31/03/25
Scaling Pan-UKRI Approaches to Public Engagement, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), 01/04/24 - 31/03/25
Haunting Issues-Children, Spectrality and Culture, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 01/04/23 - 30/09/24, £4,083.00
Creative Communities programme, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 01/05/22 - 30/04/25, £1,614,505.00
Regional Powerhouse: levelling up writing from the UK regions, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), Authors Licensing and Copyright Society, 01/02/21 - 30/12/21, £3,000.00
Writing the Sleep Crisis: 24/7 Capitalism and Neoliberal Subjectivity, De Cristofaro, D. (Principal Investigator), Shaw, K. (Co Investigator), Wellcome Trust, 01/09/20 - 31/08/23, £189,035.00
Well Read: Using Narrative Methodologies to Innovate Co-Productive Loneliness Research, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), Durham University, 01/02/20 - 30/04/21, £933.00
Research into the teaching of contemporary British Literature in overseas universities, Shaw, K. (Principal Investigator), British Council, 01/12/19 - 31/12/20, £3,500.00

Professional Activity

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Membership of board: British Council (External organisation) 2023
Other: AHRC Director of Creative Communities 2022
Consultancy: A Writing Chance 2021
Membership of committee: Local Government Association (External organisation) 2021
Membership of committee: The Labour Party (External organisation) 2021
Consultancy: Writing the Regional Powerhouse 2021
Membership of committee: BACLS: British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies (External organisation) 2017
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: International Womens Day 2017
Membership of board: University English": national subject association (External organisation) 2016
Editorial work: C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings (Journal) 2015