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 a team which manages the activities of the HaSS Faculty’s Research Units. These include:
- 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
- and 10 Faculty Research Groups.
More information about the Faculty's research infrastructure can be found here.
Mel also works 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