Dr Sue-Ann Harding will be appearing on BBC Radio 3’s Night Waves
A University of Manchester academic has been chosen as one of 10 winners of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers 2012. Sue-Ann Harding, from the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, will be part of an elite group of early-career academics who have been identified as having the potential to turn creative ideas into viable programme propositions, and will receive mentoring and advice as well as the chance to shadow presenters and producers. The group, who were chosen by a judging panel made up of Radio 3 Night Waves producers, BBC Television Arts executives and Arts and Humanities Research Council academics, will be Radio 3's new generation of resident New Generation Thinkers. They will make their debut appearance on Radio 3's arts and ideas programme Night Waves from Monday, 18 June (Mondays to Thursdays, 10.00-10.45pm) when they will each present an idea inspired by their research. The scheme, now in its second year, received hundreds of applications from early-career academics passionate about communicating modern scholarship to a wider audience. Following a six-month selection process, the final winners were chosen from a group of around 50 finalists, all of whom attended a series of day-long workshops at the BBC in Salford and London. Having completed her doctoral studies in Manchester in 2009, Harding joined Professors Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz on the AHRC-funded Mediating Post-Soviet Difference project as a postdoctoral research associate.
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