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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 21st-century Literature Globally’ report. She regularly writes for the New Statesman. She can be found on Twitter @profkatyshaw

Katy Shaw

Campus Address

103 Lipman Building



Contemporary Literature

Twenty-first Century Genre Fiction

Working Class Writing

Hauntology

Comedy

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 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

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 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

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 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

  • English Literature PhD June 09 2008
  • PGCE September 06 2006
  • English MA September 06 2005
  • English Literature MRes September 06 2004
  • English BA (Hons) June 02 2003
  • PGCE (HE and Post-Compulsory) PGCE 2005
  • Senior Fellow of HEA


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