Professor Graham Caie - Regional Champion for Europe

Background

• Professor of English Language since 1990 and Associate Dean (Research) Arts Faculty
• Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees, the National Library of Scotland
• Member of the AHRC, RAE and SQA English Panels, Advisory Boards of the English Subject Centre and the Institute of English Studies
• Senate Assessor (1999-2004)
• FRSE, FEA, FRSA

European credentials

• 18 years in the English Institute, University of Copenhagen
• Co-founder of the International Office, University of Copenhagen
• Co-founder of the Medieval Centre, University of Copenhagen
• UK and Danish Representative on the Erasmus, Lingua and Socrates Advisory Group, Brussels (1988-93)
• Hon. Secretary of the European Society for the Study of English (10,000 members)
• Chair of Evaluation Panel for English Studies in Denmark
• Chair of Assessment Panel for Research in Humanities, University of Helsinki
• External Assessor of the Netherlands Research School in Medieval Studies (1997 and 2004)
• Member of Assessment panels for Research in the Humanities at Oulu and Tampere Universities
• Chair of the Royal Swedish Academy and Swedish Research Council's Linnaeus Awards
• Assessor for the EU PEPSA programme, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Research programmes with the University of Malaga, Copenhagen, Lausanne
• Professorial appointing committees and PhD examining in a number of EU countries
• Invited lectures in Poland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary.