Edward is a University of Evansville Teacher of the Year, and Global Scholar. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, with a PhD from the University of East Anglia. Appointed in 2001, in 2007, in recognition of his teaching, service, and research, he was promoted to Associate Professor by the University of Evansville Board of Trustees. Serving, variously, as a Vice Principal, Department Chair, Programs Manager and a Program Lead, to 2021, Edward remains a dedicated teacher. A landscape historian, he is the author of three books on the social history of the landscape, including Reckless Fellows, the story of RAF Harlaxton in World War One. Landed Estates After the Great War. England’s Elysian Fields will appear in 2028 with Bloomsbury.

David Green teaches British Studies, medieval history, and various research courses. He is the co-ordinator of the George Washington University at Harlaxton program and a great advocate of both overseas study and studying the past as a way to better understand our own world. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy, he received the Exemplary Teacher award from the University of Evansville for 2023-24. His numerous publications deal with subjects such as kingship, chivalry, early colonialism, and concepts of national identity during the later Middle Ages. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Fourteenth Century England, and sits on the steering committee of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. His books include Edward the Black Prince: A Study of Power in Medieval Europe (Routledge, 2nd. ed. 2023), and The Hundred Years War: A People’s History (Yale University Press, 2014). He is also the co-editor of an interdisciplinary collection that explores The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453 (Shaun Tyas, 2016). He is currently working on a new comparative history of medieval Britain and Ireland for Yale University Press.

Oliver completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Kent, graduating with a degree in English and American Literature in 2016. He then studied at UCL, receiving an MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture in 2017.

Oliver was awarded a Doctoral College studentship from Loughborough University in 2017. His PhD thesis explored the origins and development of literary minimalism as an aesthetic form throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The project observed the historical arc of both literary minimalism and the Minimalism art movement, leading into an analysis of writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, and Raymond Carver. This work is currently being developed into a monograph, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. Oliver continues to present research regularly at international conferences, and is co-reviews editor for “C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings”.

Before joining Harlaxton in 2021, he worked as a university teacher at Loughborough University and was awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/Advance HE (FHEA) in 2020.

Lindy Rudd completed her undergraduate studies with the Open University while she was working as a production engineer in automotive safety. This led to a career change, and in 2009 she began teaching at a city further education college, where her passion for working with marginalised students began.  

Her teacher training was undertaken at Anglia Ruskin University where she was the top performing course candidate, and she won an award for innovation in teaching. She was appointed head of a busy college English department, still finding time to teach across a range of provisions: GCSE, Access to HE, and undergraduate modules on the History of Literature, Critical Theory, Victorian Literature, Tragedy, Adaptations, Creative Writing and Shakespeare at the college University Centre.  

In 2013 she began part-time postgraduate studies at the University of Birmingham’s Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon where she completed an MA in Shakespeare and Education. Her work was recognised as making a significant contribution to the further education sector and she was awarded Fellowship of the Society for Education and Training in 2017.  

Lindy completed her doctoral research in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She taught undergraduates for two years alongside her studies, mentored new teachers during the pandemic, wrote for the Academic Development Centre and was awarded an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.  

Her research interests are in early modern pedagogy, and issues of marginalisation in the modern national curriculum. She is currently working with colleges to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of the global pandemic on young people, and she has published articles on this topic.  

Lindy is passionate about theatre and is a stage manager for the Stamford Shakespeare Company.     

With an MBA from the Nottingham Business School, Professor Welsh has taught a popular introductory course in marketing for the last 14 years. His academic interests include the development and effects of consumerism in higher education and service marketing in general. In addition, he serves as the College’s Vice Principal for Business and Technology, a varied and interesting role which keeps him busy!

Professor Welsh served as chairman (2012-2015) of the Association of American Study Abroad Programs in the United Kingdom  http://www.aasapuk.org/ and remains on its Executive Committee. AASAP/UK was established in 1991 to represent the 120 or so American study abroad programs in the UK. It provides a forum for program directors and administrative staff to discuss and respond to common issues, in order to meet the needs of the present and anticipate the demands of the future for US study abroad in the UK.

Before Harlaxton College, Professor Welsh began his career in data processing management at a large London based group of Builders Merchants, at a time when computers were only just being introduced into the mainstream business arena. This was an exciting time to be ‘in computing’ and he has maintained a passion for technology ever since. He continued to develop his career and, via sojourns in operational and financial management, progressed to the financial directorship of a Midlands based retail group.

Dr Tim Williams moved to Grantham on completion of his PhD in Musicology at Cambridge University in 2008, where in his final months he held the post of Lecturer and Director of Studies in Music at Trinity College, covering for the regular post-holder’s sabbatical. Although he enjoyed academic life, Dr Williams was keen to expand his experience and horizons in church music, as an organist and choirmaster, and moved to Lincolnshire, where he is Director of Music at St Wulfram’s Church, the parish and civic church of Grantham.

During his years in Grantham, Dr Williams has overseen the development of a thriving parish church music department, which now features cathedral-standard choral initiatives for children, teenage and adult singers. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and a professionally qualified choir director (DipCHD). Under his direction, the choristers have sung in iconic UK landmarks such as Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and York Minster. Dr Williams enjoys the day-to-day rhythm of teaching and training choristers, and rehearsing choral music for church services, exploring music that reflects the changing seasons of the liturgical year.

In parallel to his vocation in church music, Dr Williams works in local schools, helping to animate music, he teaches the organ for the Young Organ Scholars’ Trust, he tutors for the Royal School of Church Music including on national courses, and since 2013 he has also trained and directed Harlaxton College Choir. He enjoys the experience and perspective that is enabled by forming a new choir each semester of students, staff, faculty and families.

Dr Williams has published on aspects of sacred music (including on chorister recruitment and retention, on the Covid-19 pandemic and virtual choirs, and on the role and needs of teenagers in church music). His research methods in church music history include many engagement projects with source material and performance practice – this resulted in a publication ‘Rethinking Early Music in a Time of Isolation’, co-authored with Professor Magnus Williamson (Newcastle University) in Early Music (Oxford University Press, 2022). Wider research interests, dating back to his PhD on the symphony in mid-Victorian concert life, include subjects such as canon and marginalisation, music reception history in culture, and the role of the listener in shaping musical experience.

Charles graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in Environmental Biology. He then went on to the University of Nottingham where he received a Postgraduate Certificate in Education. During his many years working in education, Charles has held a diverse range of positions which include Advanced Skills Teacher in Essex through to leading a faculty as Head of Science at St George’s Academy, Lincolnshire. He currently teaches at both The King’s School and Harlaxton College. He is a passionate advocate for instilling in students the need to understand the living world.

Kieran has recently returned to the midlands after completing his MSc in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, focussing his research on the phenomenology of evolutionary biology. Before that, he undertook a degree in Biblical Studies and Theology at the University of Nottingham, and later turned towards calculus achieving a Post Graduate Certificate in Education for Mathematics at Durham University. Kieran has a broad history in education, and currently teaches Calculus at Harlaxton College and Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at The King’s School, Grantham. This cross-disciplinary approach permeates his PhD research at the University of Nottingham – and is something he further hopes to instil into his students.