PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE ENABLES SCHOLAR TO TELL THE STORY OF ENGLISH ROMANTICISM
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University of Exeter academic has won a prestigious prize which will allow her to write a major cultural history of the emergence of English Romanticism. Dr Daisy Hay will bring to life a period in which new forms of writing transformed the way we think about the world. She is one of 2016’s recipients of the Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. Dr Hay will use the prize funds to write a group biography provisionally entitled Dinner with Joseph Johnson. The book
tells the story of the circle surrounding the publisher Joseph Johnson and Dr Hay is using memoirs, original manuscripts and letters to tell the connected stories of these individuals. “I am honoured and delighted to receive this prestigious prize,” she said. “Johnson is an enigmatic figure, about who little is known. He has received some limited scholarly attention, but his name is unknown outside the confines of the academy. Yet when one starts to track him he appears everywhere in the landscape of the late eighteenth century. The Philip Leverhulme Prize will give me time to tell this story, and I feel very fortunate indeed to have received it.”
Boat Club head to Rotterdam for the U23 World Rowing Championships
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fter coming second at the Easter trials, rowing scholar Susannah Duncan (second year, Engineering) was selected to represent Great Britain at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam in August 2016. She competed in the lightweight women’s quad event with three other girls from Edinburgh, Manchester and Wallingford, making the final of the competition and coming second in her heat. The British crew was coached by Richard Tinkler of the University of Exeter Boat Club (EUBC), himself a former national champion and Olympic coach. The EUBC has a 200 strong membership across all levels from complete beginners to those competing internationally.
UNIVERSITY PEDALS TO VICTORY IN NATIONAL CYCLE CHALLENGE
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ntrepid staff from the University of Exeter pedal-powered their way to victory in a national competition designed to encourage people to cycle, whether that be for fun, exercise or to work.
In total, staff from the Streatham and St Luke’s campuses covered more than 32,000 miles – well over the circumference of the Earth – over the course of September 2016 as part of the challenge.
The near 300-strong peloton from the University beat off competition from more than 2,000 organisations nationwide to secure the yellow jersey in this year’s National Cycle Challenge.
They secured top spot ahead of Lancaster City Council and Devon and Cornwall Police, who finished second and third respectively, as well as a host of other universities.