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Meet your Educators

Meet the people you'll be learning with on this four-week course.

Professor Kirstie Blair

Kirstie is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling, and from 2018-22 led the research project ‘Piston, Pen & Press: Literary Cultures in the Industrial Workplace.’ You can follow Kirstie here.

Dr Oliver Betts

Oli is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and Head of Research at The National Railway Museum, York. He oversees the academic and research profile of the museum and has a deep love of all things Victorian and Railways. You can follow Oli here.

Do introduce yourself below if you haven’t done so in the previous step! Always very interested to learn who is taking the course.

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