Last year, the announcement of the Research Excellence Framework results confirmed Kent as a leading research university, with the majority of our submissions rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). But did you know that many of these submissions took the form of books?
To celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 2 March, why not take a look at the University of Kent library’s University of Kent Research Excellence Framework 2021: submitted books and book sections reading list, which contains books and book chapters that the University of Kent submitted as part of the Research Excellence Framework 2021 exercise. They highlight the range and relevancy of Kent’s book-related research activity and demonstrate the part books play in our University culture, as well as being objects to value and enjoy in their own right.
This list is a very small sample of our excellent research output at the University of Kent. Here are just a few examples of the books published more recently, which provide an idea of the range of expertise we have here at Kent:
- Advising Philanthropists, the new book by Dr Beth Breeze, Director of Kent’s Centre for Philanthropy, which explores what the role of the philanthropy advisor entails, the practicalities involved and the wide range of skills and knowledge needed to start and excel at working with donors.
- Senior Lecturer in Child Protection, Vanisha Jassal, has contributed a chapter ‘Preserving what for whom?’ Female victim/survivor perspectives on the silence behind child sexual abuse in Britain’s South Asian communities to a seminal book on Child Sexual Abuse (CSA).
- Maurizio Cinquegrani, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, recently publishing an exciting new volume exploring war, conflict and film. Released through Edinburgh University Press, Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces, explores how films can fundamentally affect how we interpret war and conflict events and locations.
- Dr Catherine V. Bateson’s first monograph: Irish American Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood, published by Louisiana State University press on 30 September 2022, explores the culture, sentiments and experiences of Irish-born and descended American Civil War era soldiers and civilians.
- Professor David Herd’s collection of poetry, Walk Song, has been named a Book of the Year in the Australian Book Review (ABR). Written between 2015 and 2020, Walk Song weaves in and out of the Refugee Tales project, of which Professor Herd is a co-organiser. Through its exploration of landscape and politics, friendship and movement, the book builds, across a series of poetic sequences, towards action and hope.
- Sheona York, Reader in Law and Clinic Solicitor in Kent Law Clinic, has recently published a monograph, The Impact of UK Immigration Law: Declining Standards of Public Administration, Legal Probity and Democratic Accountability which provides an insightful analysis of recent developments in immigration, asylum and citizenship law in the broader social and political context.
- Professor Heejung Chung from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research has published The Flexibility Paradox: Why flexible working leads to (self-) exploitation which explores how workers’ wellbeing and gender equality may in fact be jeopardised by flexible working, rather than providing a better work-life balance.
If you are a researcher at the University of Kent and would like to have your book listed here, please email Emily Collins with the details.