Dr Bujak is a University of Evansville Global Scholar and Teacher of the Year. In the UK, he is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He joined the British Faculty in 2001, as an Assistant Professor, having completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia. In 2007, in recognition of his record of teaching, service, and research, he was promoted to Associate Professor at Harlaxton by the Board of Trustees of the University. Subsequently, he served in a variety of senior administrative and managerial roles while continuing to deliver a range of courses on the history of Britain, Europe, and the World, in the modern era. Dr Bujak now serves as a member of the British Faculty. His new book, Landed Estates After the Great War. England’s Elysian Fields is due to be published by Bloomsbury in 2028. Among his other works, Reckless Fellows, tells the story of the pilots and mechanics of the Royal Flying Corps stationed at Harlaxton in the First World War. Please see: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/author/edward-bujak/

David Green teaches courses in British Studies and medieval history at Harlaxton. He is 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, 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, 2^nd. 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).

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.

Professor Emily Stammitti is the Director of the MA in Innovative Leadership in Heritage Management at Harlaxton College, University of Evansville. She obtained her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in archaeology, where she focused her research on submerged inland landscapes, gaining qualifications as a professional scuba diver and creating community programming around the benefits of underwater archaeology outreach in communities. She has researched, spoken, and taught extensively across Scotland and England, spending years working as a professional archaeologist and heritage consultant. Emily currently serves as the Education and Outreach Officer for the Enabled Archaeology Foundation and sits on the board of trustees of the Archbishop’s Palace Conservation Trust, guiding best archaeological practice and driving for equality, diversity and inclusion across the sector. She has won a range of public speaking awards and developed bespoke, award-winning community education programmes in coordination with the Wellcome Trust and the HLF. Digging Harlaxton, her pilot archaeological field school in England, received the Highly Commended Community Archaeology Project of the Year Marsh Award in recognition of excellence in enabling participation for a wide range of individuals. Emily has a passion for sustainable development and the environment, is a proactive advocate for accessible heritage for all, and enjoys spending her free time illustrating children’s books. Emily joins Harlaxton College with 15-years of industry and academic experience, equipped with stories about being chased by seals in California, hunting for shipwrecks in Scotland and being perched on by meerkats in central England.

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.

Syed Mehdi completed his undergraduate degree in Polymer Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. With a strong research focus, he explored the fields of polymer recycling, sustainability, dye-synthesised solar cells and biodegradable thermoplastics leading to publications in peer-reviewed journals.

In 2019, he moved to UK where he completed his MRes. in Advanced Materials Chemistry, graduating with distinction. This led to a fully funded position as a postgraduate researcher at Nottingham Trent University. His areas of research include microfluidics, biomedical devices, porous materials, supramolecules and hemodialysis. He is passionate in transferring to Harlaxton students the skills and knowledge he has attained during his research endeavours.

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.

Holding an Executive MBA from Oxford University, Thomas brings a wealth of knowledge from his diverse experiences in healthcare management and entrepreneurship.

Before transitioning into academia, Thomas served in senior management roles within the NHS for over a decade, where he focused on enhancing operational efficiencies to improve patient outcomes. He also founded and led a tech company to become one of the fastest-growing firms in the UK, giving him a profound understanding of economic principles in a competitive business environment.

In his class, Thomas aims to introduce key theories and connect them with real-world applications. His teaching case based method is designed to make economics accessible and engaging, highlighting the relevance of key concepts to business, technology, healthcare, and more.

Thomas is passionate about using economics to explain and predict trends in both current events and future innovations. He looks forward to exploring the dynamic world of economics with his students, helping them to understand and influence the economic forces that shape our lives.