Dr Elen Caldecott
Senior Lecturer in Creative WritingResearch Overview
I am a creative writing practitioner with a successful fifteen-year career in the publishing industry. My creative career has dovetailed with practice-led research in academia.
I specialise in writing, researching and teaching literature for young people. Much of my work is concerned with positive representations of working class childhoods and of non-traditional families. I also have an interest in transnational literature, especially the creative potential of artists working between languages.
I am interested in supervising projects in the field of writing for young people.
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Additional Information
Further information for prospective PhD Students.
If you will be seeking funding for your programme from the DTP or Faculty, my personal timeline for helping you with that is:
- Jan-Aug, I am open to exploratory discussions.
- Sept-Dec, I am open to formal applications from students who will be seeking funding.
- Jan-Feb, I will support accepted students with DTP funding applications.
- Easter, typically funding decisions are made.
- Oct, student starts their PhD programme.
For students who are self-funding, I welcome discussions on your proposed project between Sept-July to start the following October.
PhD Supervision Interests
I specialise in writing, researching and teaching literature for young people. Much of my work is concerned with positive representations of working class childhoods and of non-traditional families. I also have an interest in transnational literature, especially the creative potential of artists working between languages. I am interested in supervising projects in the field of writing for young people.
Reading Teacher=Reading Pupils
01/09/2023 → 31/05/2024
Other
How can using a bilingual creative process reinforce a feeling of belonging and develop an awareness of attainment and progress in primary school children?
01/02/2023 → 30/04/2023
Other
Big Stories/Straeon Mawr
01/04/2022 → 30/04/2022
Other
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Oral presentation
Pushing the boundaries and getting pushed back; ecocritical rejections
Oral presentation
Ploughing the Field Roundtable
Invited talk
National Association of Writers in Education
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Transnational Writing
Invited talk
Conference Keynote
Invited talk
Conference Panel: The Short Knife
Invited talk
Conference Panel: The Blackthorn Branch
Invited talk
Borders and Crossings
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Carnegie Medal - longlisted
Prize (including medals and awards)
Tir Na n'Og Prize
Prize (including medals and awards)
Young Quills - shortlisted
Prize (including medals and awards)
UKLA Book Award - shortlisting
Prize (including medals and awards)