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Chancellor
The Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University is Dr Tracy Borman OBE, who was installed into the role on 28 July 2022. -
About BGU
Bishop Grosseteste University is located on a beautifully green and pleasant campus just a few minutes’ walk from Lincoln Cathedral, Castle and the old Roman city. -
Business
The BA (Hons) Business programme introduces you to a range of business subjects including Marketing, Finance, Management, Equality Diversity and Inclusion and Leadership. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of organisations through our links with industry and the opportunity to develop projects and expertise in areas that you are interested in. If you don’t have, or don’t think you will attain the normal tariff points for studying at BGU, click here to view the Foundation Year version of this course. -
Business with Foundation Year
The BA (Hons) Business programme introduces you to a range of business subjects including Marketing, Finance, Management, Equality Diversity and Inclusion and Leadership. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of organisations through our links with industry and the opportunity to develop projects and expertise in areas that you are interested in. -
Prof. Claudia Capancioni
Prof. CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI, Dott. (Urbino, Italy), MA & Ph.D (Hull, UK), SFHEA Professor in English Literature and Programme Leader for English ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-6202 Claudia is a Professor of English Literature and Programme Leader for English, including the MA English Literature and MA Children’s Literature and Literacies. She is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). At BGU, she leads the Research & Knowledge Exchange Unit, ‘Voicing the Past: ‘Culture, Legacy, and Narrative’. She is also the academic lead for the Sandford Award, and a member of the Research Ethics and Quality Assurance Committees. She is the Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). The contribution of women to literatures in English is her scholarly pursuit, with a focus on the long nineteenth century, the twentieth and twenty-first century. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, adaptation, gender and translation studies. She has a keen interest in multigenerational literary legacy, intellectual circles, intertextuality, and transnational studies. She has also published on detective fiction, the Gothic, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural connections, and Joyce Salvadori Lussu. Her publications include translations into English of Italian literary texts. She teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary literature, literary theory, and research skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She previously taught Victorian literature and Modernism at the University of Hull, where she was awarded her Ph.D. -
Dr Rob Boast
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students) Rob joined the senior management team at BGU in November 2017, firstly in the role of Executive Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Engagement, and now as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students). Rob leads on all aspects of the academic learning, teaching and student experience, both on-campus and also through collaborative arrangements with educational and business partners. His focus is on supporting academic staff to deliver inspirational teaching, an excellent student learning experience and meaningful student engagement. Through his role he has direct oversight of the Centre for Enhancement in Learning and Teaching, the Library, Student Advice, UK and International Partnerships. Prior to joining BGU, Rob worked at Staffordshire University, where he was most recently Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching. Rob is recognised as an innovator in higher education practice. He has a particular specialism in problem-based learning and practical scholarship, personalised learner support and innovative course development across a range of disciplines. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has also championed the introduction of technology-enhanced learning and creation of new employer engagement and student employability opportunities. -
Dr W. Jack Rhoden
Programme Leader in Undergraduate HistoryWilfred.rhoden@bishopg.ac.uk I am a historian from Lancashire but crossed the Pennines over 15 years ago. I gained my PhD at the University of Sheffield for my study of ‘Caricatural representations of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1848-1871’. I then completed a post-doc based at Chatsworth House before lecturing at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and Cardiff University. I am interested in all things nineteenth century, especially French and British political culture, political cartoons, book collecting and more recently the institutional history of Bishop Grosseteste.Related courses: HistoryMilitary HistoryMA in Social & Cultural HistoryArchaeology & HistoryEnglish & HistoryEducation Studies & HistoryHistory & Theology, Philosophy and Ethics -
Janice Morris (Retired)
Between 2003 and 2020, Janice was the Teaching Resources Collection Librarian at Bishop Grosseteste University. Her career started in Willenhall Public Library, followed by two years in Nigeria as Reader Services Librarian in a College of Education. On returning home she worked for Wiltshire School Library Service where she discovered and developed the love of children's literature. As the former Subject Librarian for Initial Teacher Training, TESOL and Children's Literature, Janice was responsible for the Teaching Resources Collection. In that capacity, Janice facilitated students and staff to develop their knowledge of Children’s Literature held in the TRC. She initiated and contributed to projects that have promoted this, including shadowing the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards and the UKLA Book Awards, organising author visits, and co-producing an in-house newsletter dedicated to children’s literature, It’s successor is The Four Corners, edited by Rose Roberto and Amy Webster. Janice was a founder member of the English Subject Group that evolved into the RKEU Literature and Literacies (LiLi) and she did a tremendous amount of work contributing to improving the BGU collections for the BGU community and beyond. -
Dr Mary-Louise Maynes
Louise has been teaching at Bishop Grosseteste University since 2008, initially as a visiting tutor and as a full-time member of staff from 2012. Prior to working at BGU Louise worked as a primary teacher in Kent and Lincolnshire and for a Schools Library Service, where she advised teachers on how to set up and manage school libraries. She has also had a career as a museum educator, working with children and young people in a variety of museums including the Apprentice House at Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire and the Natural History Museum in London where she managed their hands-on ‘discovery centre’. Teaching Louise teaches on the undergraduate Early Childhood Studies programme. Her teaching interests include the history of childhood, early literacy and working with babies and children under three. She has a particular interest in Children’s Literature and in developing ways to encourage students and practitioners to extend their knowledge and use of books with babies and young children. She has also contributed sessions on informal learning for the Education Studies programme. -
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