Commercialisation Manager (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

• Mar 2022 - Present

I lead Cambridge Enterprise’s services for academics, researchers and students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. We support our researchers to shape their insight and expertise into products and services which create impact for real-world stakeholders. Our aim is to enable creative, commercial engagements between Cambridge researchers and beneficiaries in business, government and policy, the voluntary and community sector, and wider society. Our successes include… Show more I lead Cambridge Enterprise’s services for academics, researchers and students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. We support our researchers to shape their insight and expertise into products and services which create impact for real-world stakeholders. Our aim is to enable creative, commercial engagements between Cambridge researchers and beneficiaries in business, government and policy, the voluntary and community sector, and wider society. Our successes include supporting the development of innovative software, designs and knowhow; developing and investing in spinouts and social ventures; delivering research-based social interventions; platforming knowledge exchange in areas such as education, cultural and creative industries, finance, governance and global development.

Project Lead (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

• Dec 2018 - Mar 2022

Access and Outreach Officer

• Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

Coordinating outreach, public engagement and widening participation initiatives at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity. Coordinating outreach, public engagement and widening participation initiatives at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity.

Progression Specialist

• Sep 2017 - Nov 2018

Causeway Education is a social enterprise supporting access to Higher Education for students in low progression neighbourhoods by creating evidence-based tools to enhance student decision making and agency, and by supporting schools, colleges and universities to take structural actions to improve HE access. My role was as a Progression Specialist, providing expertise to staff and students at two Further Education colleges in Cambridgeshire. I worked in hands-on mentoring for a diverse… Show more Causeway Education is a social enterprise supporting access to Higher Education for students in low progression neighbourhoods by creating evidence-based tools to enhance student decision making and agency, and by supporting schools, colleges and universities to take structural actions to improve HE access. My role was as a Progression Specialist, providing expertise to staff and students at two Further Education colleges in Cambridgeshire. I worked in hands-on mentoring for a diverse cohort of Level 3 students, and assisted the colleges as they embedded new tools and systems, refined and implemented their strategies to improve HE progression. Show less Causeway Education is a social enterprise supporting access to Higher Education for students in low progression neighbourhoods by creating evidence-based tools to enhance student decision making and agency, and by supporting schools, colleges and universities to take structural actions to improve HE access. My role was as a Progression Specialist, providing expertise to staff and students at two Further Education colleges in Cambridgeshire. I worked in hands-on mentoring for a diverse… Show more Causeway Education is a social enterprise supporting access to Higher Education for students in low progression neighbourhoods by creating evidence-based tools to enhance student decision making and agency, and by supporting schools, colleges and universities to take structural actions to improve HE access. My role was as a Progression Specialist, providing expertise to staff and students at two Further Education colleges in Cambridgeshire. I worked in hands-on mentoring for a diverse cohort of Level 3 students, and assisted the colleges as they embedded new tools and systems, refined and implemented their strategies to improve HE progression. Show less

Assistant Senior Tutor and Lecturer in English Literature

• Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

- Lecturing, seminar and tutorial teaching, research supervision in literature, with a focus on the period 1660-1850. - Providing academic guidance and pastoral support for the termly cohort of around 30 students. Romanticism, Environmental Writing, British Children's Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 'Writing New Worlds 1650-1850', 'The English Country House: A Literary History', Literary Criticism. - Lecturing, seminar and tutorial teaching, research supervision in literature, with a focus on the period 1660-1850. - Providing academic guidance and pastoral support for the termly cohort of around 30 students. Romanticism, Environmental Writing, British Children's Literature, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 'Writing New Worlds 1650-1850', 'The English Country House: A Literary History', Literary Criticism.

College Lecturer

• Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

Research focussing on the literary culture of early British Methodism and its relationship to the development of Christian poetics in the long eighteenth-century. My monograph 'John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Methodism' is available in paperback with Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/John-Wesley-Practical-Divinity-and-the-Defence-of-Literature/Cunha/p/book/9780367891589. Research focussing on the literary culture of early British Methodism and its relationship to the development of Christian poetics in the long eighteenth-century. My monograph 'John Wesley, Practical Divinity and the Defence of Methodism' is available in paperback with Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/John-Wesley-Practical-Divinity-and-the-Defence-of-Literature/Cunha/p/book/9780367891589.