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Professor Elizabeth Hoult
Professor
Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
My work is driven by the central belief that when we get together in groups to make meaning from literary and cinematic texts, the process not only has the potential to transform the way that we think, but the way that we live. This idea informs the methodologies I have developed to understand educational disadvantage and resilience for lifelong learners from the early years onwards. I have explored these ideas with adult learners in university and community settings, with men in prison and most recently, with teachers and parents of looked after children. I am committed to the teaching and nuture of plurality through reading texts and it is for this social purpose that I draw on literary theory as a theoretical framework.
My areas of research are, broadly:
1) the development of an understanding of resilience in disadvantaged and marginalised learners;
2) the use of literary theory and literary analysis alongside empirical data as an investigative framework in education - Hoult, E.C. (2012) Adult Learning and La Recherche Féminine: Reading Resilience and Hélène Cixous New York: Palgrave Macmillan
3) the cultivation of higher level reading practices as a function
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Dr Peter Hill
Associate Professor
Department: Humanities
Peter is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialising in the Arab world in the long nineteenth century. His research focusses on political thought and practice, the politics of religion, and translation and intercultural exchanges. He also has a strong interest in comparative and global history.
Before joining Northumbria University in 2019, Peter was Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He has taught and designed modules in the history of the Middle East and global history, and the history of capitalism. In 2023 he was the winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History.
Peter's first book, Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. He has published several articles on translation, political thought and popular politics in the Middle East, in journals such as Past & Present, the Journal of Arabic Literature, and Journal of Global History. His second book, Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East, will be published by Oneworld in spring 2024.
Research Themes and Scholarly Interests
Peter's main research interests are in the cultural and intellectual history of the Mi
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