The CHASE Alumni Network

KEH is currently developing a CHASE Alumni Network. Joining the network will allow former CHASE PhD researchers to connect with other scholars and professionals, maintain their relationships with their peers, and keep up-to-date with CHASE news and funding opportunities.

Members of the network will also provide support, advice, and mentoring for CHASE researchers wishing to undertake collaborative, knowledge exchange projects with non-higher education organisations, and will have the opportunity to act as supervisors for CHASE projects.

This is a great opportunity for CHASE alumni to stay involved in the consortium, participate in knowledge exchange activities, and support the next generation of scholars.

Collaboration with current CHASE researchers is mutually beneficial; the potential benefits of joining the alumni network include (but are not limited to):

• Working with a PhD researcher can offer unique insight into projects, business practice, and research problems

• Collaborative projects have the potential to offer alumni members access to information and resources not otherwise available

• For Early Career Researchers, mentoring a CHASE researcher can provide valuable supervisory experience

• Developing collaborative projects with a doctoral researcher can generate funding (from both CHASE, and other sources)

As part of this network, KEH plans to feature details of CHASE alumni on www.chasekeh.co.uk , so that both former and current CHASE researchers, as well as academics and organisations can access information about members. This will allow various parties to contact alumni members who they are interested in working with, whether this is for the purpose of ideas sharing, developing collaborative projects and placements, connecting with potential mentors or supervisors, or seeking advice.

The possibilities of the network are almost limitless. The database may, for example:

• Allow current CHASE researchers to seek advice from alumni members who undertook a project or placement in their desired field

• Facilitate idea sharing between PhD researchers, alumni and academics working on research projects

• Enable CHASE researchers to contact alumni members employed at organisations they want to work with

• Inspire future collaborative projects between members (whether these be for academic research or otherwise)

If you are a former CHASE researcher and would like to get involved, please use the enquiry form below to let us know!

If you are a member of a non-higher education organisation, your organisation can also enquire about partnership, or offer a placement. For more information about how you can get involved, please see our dedicated organisations page.

See below for details about our featured alumni!

Alumni Network Enquiries

Featured Alumni

Emily completed her PhD at the University of Kent in 2018. Her thesis explored charitable activities for disabled ex-servicemen after the First World War, and drew particular attention to the ways that charity objects - such as artificial Haig Poppies - contributed to shifting understandings of disability during the period c.1900-1930.

During her CHASE funded studentship, Emily co-founded the CHASE journal, Brief Encounters, and undertook a four month placement at Bloomsbury Publishing. More recently, she also helped to develop the Knowledge Exchange Hub website!

Emily would be delighted to supervise or mentor students interested in the histories of disability, medicine and the body, and would welcome discussion and collaboration with anyone interested in these topics, or in her experiences as a CHASE scholar.

Eleanor completed her PhD at the University of Sussex in 2018. Her thesis examined representations of incarceration in the poetry of the late modernist poet Anna Mendelssohn, and explored her contribution to a powerful Western tradition of women writing imprisonment. Her research is published or forthcoming in College Literature, Modernist Cultures, Women: A Cultural Review and Palgrave, and she is the co-editor of a special issue on Anna Mendelssohn for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.

Eleanor would be delighted to supervise or mentor students in the fields of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, prison literature, feminist periodicals and digital mapping.  

Dr Simon Everett

Editor-in-Chief, Muscaliet Press

editor@muscaliet.co.uk

Simon is a poet and poet-translator. His latest collection of poetry, Tamám (Litmus Press, 2020), is an experimental reimagining of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. His translations of Chinese T’ang dynasty poetry have been published in magazines such as STAND, and his translations of contemporary Chinese poet Zhang Yangyang appeared in Chinese Arts and Letters journal.

He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Essex, funded by CHASE. Simon was also the Layout Editor of the  Brief Encounters CHASE journal from 2017-2019.

Simon is happy to supervise or mentor students in the fields of publishing and creative writing, or a combination of the two.

Dr Sophie Kelly

Curator, British Museum

skelly@britishmusum.org

Sophie Kelly is the Project Curator on the British Museum exhibition Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint. She is a specialist on the art of the Middle Ages, and has wide-ranging research interests, encompassing medieval visual culture, book history, and the legacy of medieval art in the modern day.

Sophie completed her PhD at the University of Kent in 2018. Her thesis examined the representation of the Trinity in England and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, exploring how artists’ attempts to visualise the three-in-one God, to literally ‘imagine the unimaginable’, resulted in some of the most inventive and extraordinary images of the Middle Ages. Following her PhD, Sophie worked on curatorial projects at Canterbury Cathedral and the Royal Collection Trust.   

Sophie would be delighted to supervise or mentor students in the fields of medieval art history and visual culture, museum studies, book history, or any other topics relating to her research. She would also welcome discussions and collaboration with anyone interested in her field.

Emma’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the social controls and regulations of all women, notably in relation to pregnancy, sex and reproduction. Emma is the author of Criminal Justice Responses to Maternal Filicide: Judging the Failed Mother (Emerald Publishing, 2021). She co-authored Sex and Crime (SAGE, 2020), and co-edited Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (Palgrave, 2018).

Dr Marie-Alix Thouaille

Research Degrees Administrator, Goldsmiths, University of London

m.thouaille@gold.ac.uk

Marie holds a PhD in feminist media studies from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Her doctoral research charted the ways in which contemporary popular culture imagines authoriality as an ideal form of labour for the single woman subject. During her doctoral studies, Marie became interested in how questions of agency, labour and affect, and the contexts of precarity and neoliberalism, loomed large not just in the diegetic world of her thesis case studies, but also in the 'real world' of UK Higher Education.

During her CHASE-funded studentship, Marie pursued work on doctoral education, researcher development, postdoctoral career paths, and academic precarity. In particular, Marie undertook a 6-month placement with Vitae, where she led a research project investigating the experiences of Arts and Humanities doctoral and early career researchers.

After completing her PhD, Marie joined the Goldsmiths Graduate School where she focusses on supporting current doctoral students and enhancing their experience of the PhD.

Marie would welcome discussion and collaboration with anyone interested in UK doctoral education, postdoctoral career paths, 'altac' careers, or in her experiences as a CHASE scholar.

Nicole completed her doctorate at the University of Sussex in 2019. Her thesis, ‘Shakespeare’s Sovereign Beasts: Human-Animal Relations and Political Discourse in Early Modern Drama’ explores the connections made between figures of sovereignty and animals in early modern drama. Nicole has written on the wider representation of animals in early modern culture – her study on early modern lions was recently published in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals (2021) and her chapter ‘“The Dignity of Mankind”: Edward Tyson's Anatomie of a Pygmy and the Ape-Man Boundary’ was published in the edited collection Seeing Animals After Derrida (2018).

Before embarking on her PhD, Nicole undertook an internship at the National Portrait Gallery, where she conducted research for a proposed exhibition on ‘man and beast’ in portraiture. During her doctoral studies, she co-organised several academic events, including the London Renaissance Seminar on Animal Lives in Early Modern Culture, and was a research assistant for the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Hidden Persuaders’ at Birkbeck, University of London, which explores the impact of ‘brainwashing’ on conceptions of the human.

Nicole is passionate about the transformative power of higher education and supported several projects during her CHASE funded studentship that aimed to widen access to university and scholarly research. She co-founded the open access CHASE journal Brief Encounters, which supports the dissemination of knowledge to a global readership. She also worked as a PhD tutor with The Brilliant Club, was a Research Mentor for the Sussex Learning Network (SLN:COP) and organised widening participation initiatives, such as the CHASE-funded doctoral training event Addressing Access.

Nicole would welcome discussion and collaboration with anyone interested in early modern studies, animal studies or, indeed, early modern animal studies! She would also be delighted to mentor doctoral students interested in pursuing ‘altac’ careers or in sharing her experiences as a CHASE scholar.