Sarah Speight is an academic and Professor of Higher Education at the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

. Since 2020, she has been Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and was previously head of the School of Education. Speight studied at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

and went on to complete a PhD at the

. Her research spans the fields of higher education, archaeology and history.

Education

Speight studied at the University of Manchester where she completed a

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in history. She went on to study at the

, completing a

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in 1989 and a PhD at the same institution in 1993, titled ''Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066–1250'', the latter under the supervision of Philip Dixon.

Career

Speight works at the University of Nottingham and has taught for the Schools of Continuing Education, Education, and History. She was also head of the university's School of Education for five years. In 2006, she received the university's Lord Dearing Award, which recognises "outstanding achievements ... in enhancing the student learning experience". In 2013, Speight was awarded a

National Teaching Fellowship The National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) is an award for excellence in teaching in higher education for teaching fellows in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The scheme was first administered by the Higher Education Academy, wh ...

. Speight was Honorary Treasurer of the Castle Studies Group between 1998 and 2001. Between 2001 and 2006, Speight was the Archaeology Editor for the ''Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire''. Her specialism in castles led to her appearing in episodes of ''

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'' about

Beaudesert Castle Beaudesert Castle was on a high mound overlooking the village of Beaudesert to the east of Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire (). It is a scheduled ancient monument. The remains found on the site show that it was originally an Iron Age fort which ga ...

(2002) and

Codnor Castle Codnor Castle is a ruined 13th-century castle in Derbyshire, England. The land around Codnor came under the jurisdiction of William Peverel after the Norman conquest. The building is registered as a Scheduled Ancient Monument a Grade II Listed B ...

(2008). Speight was part of a movement examining the impact of castles on settlements and the landscape; Speight contributed a study of castle chapels to this area.

Selected publications

Speight has published articles in venues such as '' Journal of Educational Administration and History'', ''Château Gaillard: Études de castellologie médiévale'', ''

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'', and the ''Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire''.

Castle studies and archaeology

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Education

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References

External links

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Profile on the University of Nottingham website
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