Dr Clare Stainthorp

Clare coordinates and supports the delivery of the UK-wide Areas of Research Interest (ARI) Programme, alongside co-leads Rob Davies and Nicky Buckley. UPEN is working to embed Areas of Research Interest and other academic-policy engagement mechanisms in national, devolved, regional, and local contexts. Clare is also the co-chair, with Rich Pickford, of the ARI Practitioners Community of Practice. If you’re interested in finding out more about, or getting involved with, Areas of Research Interest pilots, peer learning events, and other activities, please get in touch.

Clare is a research impact specialist and experienced in building collaborations between academic, policy, and third-sector organisations. Alongside her part-time role with UPEN, Clare is Research Impact Manager at the Royal College of Art. She’s held a range of roles at University College London and was a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Clare enjoys opportunities to share her research into working-class atheist writing, and other aspects of Victorian literature and culture, whether through publications or a chat over coffee!