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Dr Alisa Miller

Dr Miller was awarded her DPhil at Christ Church, University of Oxford in 2008, following on from degrees at the London School of Economics (MA, 2004) and the University of Michigan (BA, 2002). In 2009 she worked at Oxford as a researcher on the JISC-funded First World War Poetry Digital Archive, and in June 2010 she was appointed as the first Coordinator of the Consortium for Research Excellence, Support and Training (CREST) at GuildHE.

Key responsibilities at GuildHE include the development and dissemination of policies related to national, European and international research and innovation, including the CREST Network, which is made up of 20 small, specialist and regional Higher Education Institutions in England and Wales. Focus areas include research funding, project and bidding support (e.g. the GuildHE Innovation Project, Research and European Council consortial applications, and the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014)) and the facilitation of: interdisciplinary and institutional collaboration; community and industry engagement; open access, research repositories and online research communication systems; and training programmes for research-active staff and postgraduate researchers.

Dr Miller is also Research Fellow at the University of Chichester, where she lectures on ‘Mobilisations and the home front, 1914-1919’, and has published articles and an edited volume on the First World War. She is currently working on a book entitled Rupert Brooke in the First World War.