Emma Newport

Dr Emma Newport's research interests include eighteenth-century attitudes to China and, more broadly, women’s positions in a network of global exchanges of ideas and objects. She is the chair of the Women, Money and Markets conference series, which she began in 2017 (womenmoneymarkets.co.uk).

As the lead academic for Sussex Writes, Emma runs this creative writing programme with the aim of widening university participation through collaboration between the School of English and local schools. Sussex Writes brings into local classrooms talented writers from amongst undergraduate and postgraduate students. By working closely with schools, we have developed a programme that allows the younger students to gain new skills and confidence in their writing and have access to older students who have experience of attending university; at the same time, university students gain valuable experience in the classroom and reflect in new ways on their approaches to creative writing whilst testing their ideas for ways of working with and inspiring young people.