Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC.

Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation Thinkers spend a year working closely with producers at the BBC, contributing to radio broadcasts, and developing research projects into programmes for a general public.

More information about the 2020 New Generation Thinkers is available here: https://ahrc.ukri.org/innovation/new-generation-thinkers/2020/