Cara Courage - Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge: Women in The Archers

Edited by

DR CARA COURAGE

DR NICOLA HEADLAM

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CONTENTS

Preface

Index of Ambridge Residents

Index 197

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Dr Cara Courage is Head of Tate Exchange, UK, the Tates platform dedicated to socially engaged art, and an arts, society and place curator, researcher, writer and practitioner. Cara has a 20-year career in the arts, specialising in arts in the public realm and public engagement with the built environment, active across all art forms in this and working as a consultant and project manager for public and private initiatives, as well as having her own placemaking practice. As well as co-editing two volumes of Academic Archers books (2016 & 2017) Cara is author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice (2017) and the co-editor of Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice (2018).

Dr Nicola Headlam is the Head of the Northern Powerhouse within the Cities and Local Growth Unit and is on secondment from her research fellowship at The University of Oxford. Prior to that she spent several years as the Urban Transformations and Foresight Future of Cities Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow funded by the ESRC. She is primarily interested in knowledge mobilisation for urban transformations. She has worked for 20 years on issues relating to the translation of research into policy and is an adaptable urbanist, media commentator and author. Her expertise is in comparative city governance, economic development, regeneration and urban policy and the networks that enable human flourishing, including the role of public agencies in place, specifically sub-national spatial and urban policy, and the role of leadership and partnerships. Nicola is passionate about the role of universities in public policy and practice and is a founding member of the Urbanista UK network for women involved in positive urban change.

She goes to Ambridge every evening to escape all that.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Hannah Marije Altorf is a Reader in philosophy at St. Marys University, Strawberry Hill, London, where she was programme director for eight years. She has written on the philosophical work of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. Together with Maritte Willemsen she translated The Sovereignty of Good into Dutch and presented a fictional dialogue between Murdoch, Bayley and two friends at its presentation. She is presently working on a short introduction to Murdochs philosophical work.

Elizabeth has returned to the University of Cambridge to complete an Master of Laws in 20182019, having previously worked in two City law firms. She was a proud participant in the 2018 Academic Archers conference.

Charlotte is an actor and research psychologist. She trained and worked as a dancer before attending drama school at The Old Rep, Birmingham. In 1982 she was cast as Susan Carter in BBC Radio 4s The Archers, a character which she plays to the present day. She continues to work in theatre, television, radio and as a voice-over artist, but has also gone on to pursue an academic career, studying psychology at the University of Birmingham and achieving a PhD in 2008, exploring the role of power and expressed emotion in depression in people with auditory hallucinations. Her current academic role is focussed specifically on early identification and intervention in youth mental health, working in collaboration with schools and communities. Recent studies have included improving care pathways for young people with psychosis, and screening for early warning signs of eating disorders in young people in schools. She has published 15 academic papers and regularly presents at academic conferences worldwide. Charlotte is also a keen Tweeter (@ambridgeview) and regularly tweets during the Sunday