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Jeremy Ahearne to be new Director of the Centre

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jeremy Ahearne will be taking up the directorship of the Centre from September 2014. He will be taking over from Dr Chris Bilton, who has led the Centre for the past six years, overseeing a period of significant expansion. Chris is now standing down so that he can focus more on his teaching and research activities.

Jeremy will be joining us from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Warwick, where he has published widely on French cultural and intellectual history. Jeremy has also been a member of the Centre since 1996. He has taught modules for us on French and German cultural policy, and also, more recently, on implicit and explicit cultural policies across the world. He has played a defining role in several research projects developed in the Centre (notably, with Oliver Bennett, those on intellectuals and cultural policy, and on religion and cultural policy). His most recent book is Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left (2010), and he is currently completing a book on relations between government and culture in France from 2002 to 2012. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Policy and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research.

Jeremy is looking forward to playing a full part in the Centre's teaching and research activities, and will be teaching among other things the core module on global cultural policy for the Centre's new MA, run by Jonathan Vickery, on Arts Enterprise and Development.

Further information on Jeremy's research and publications can be found here.

Thu 27 Feb 2014, 13:57