College of Arts, Humanities and Education staff

David Barker is a Senior Lecturer in Publishing and Programme Leader for the MA Publishing at the University of Derby. He is interested in all aspects of Publishing as an academic discipline.

Sharon Bell, Head of Discipline for Education, Childhood and Inclusion at the University of Derby. 

Amanda Blake Davis is a Lecturer in English Literature. Amanda specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture with an emphasis on Romantic poetry, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley. She has wider research interests in the environmental humanities, intermediality and intertextuality, and classical reception.

Andy Bloor is a Senior Lecturer and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for the Discipline of Primary ITT/E. His fields of interest are around Special Educational Needs and Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties in children, particularly those with Attachment Disorder and neuro-atypical children, as well as wider the Social Justice agenda in Education.