Staff Profile
Mel Whewell
Institutes & Partnerships Manager
- Email: mel.whewell@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6559
- Address: HaSS Research Institutes
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (HaSS)
Room 2.02, Armstrong Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
Working closely with academic colleagues Mel leads the Research Institutes PS Team. Together they manage the activities of the HaSS Faculty’s three Research Institutes, its four Centres of Research Excellence and its 11 Faculty Research Groups.
- Institute for Creative Arts Practice
- Humanities Research Institute
- Institute for Social Science
- Centre for Landscape
- Centre for Heritage
- Centre for Researching Cities
- Centre for Children & Youth
Further information about the HaSS Faculty's research infrastructure can be found here.
Mel also works closely with academic directors, and other colleagues, to develop and sustain partnerships with external cultural & creative organisations.
Qualifications
- Clore Leader 2018 – Cohort 54
- MA Heritage Management, Newcastle University
- BA (Hons) Fine Art & Visual Culture, Northumbria University
- BA (Hons) Archaeology, Newcastle University
Award
Churchill Fellow 1991
"Archaeological Access & Conservation in the US Countryside"
Previous board membership
Secretary of State appointed Board Member: Northumberland National Park Authority (2009-2017)
Previous Positions
- Institute & Partnerships Manager, Institute for Creative Arts Practice, Newcastle University
- Principal Officer Collections Management, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
- Senior Interpretive Planner, PLB
- Interpretation Manager, Infinite Design
- Reach-out Officer, Newcastle University
- Environmental Interpretation Officer, Northumberland County Council
- Heritage Interpretation Officer, Northamptonshire County Council
- Archaeologist, UK & Germany