Dr Zoe Bulaitis Research Associate in the School of Arts, Languages & Cultures at the University of Manchester

Dr Zoe Bulaitis is a Research Associate in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester working in the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC). She is a literary scholar and critical theorist with a background in cultural and higher education policy. Her research focuses on the articulation of cultural value in contemporary higher education and the creative sector, in particular, the economisation of cultural value; policy analysis and critique; histories of liberal and neoliberal education; and the development of humanities-oriented methodologies.

Zoe holds a PhD from the University of Exeter where she taught literature and critical theory from 2013-18. Before joining the PEC, she worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Wolverhampton. Zoe is also engaged in several international humanities advocacy networks including the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH) and the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC

Website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/zoe.bulaitis.html

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