Simon Frost
Election
Position
Name
Simon Frost
Candidate statement
Simon Frost. Principal Lecturer in English at Bournemouth University; Senior Editor for Oxford Reference Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press).
The position’s requirement, and my strategy, is to continue developing SHARP’s ability to become a sustainable transnational organisation, an aim that we have been achieving in a step-by-step manner since my revamping of the Directorship back in 2012. As a voluntary organisation, and with members’ capacity limited by other working commitments, SHARP’s progress is achieved by creating opportunities to co-ordinate private ambitions with the life of the society: especially among ECRs, in initiatives such as the ECR Lightening Seed grants and the Transnational Affairs budget for regional SHARP activities (over 30 funded-events to date, in locations from Taipei/Taiwan to Buenos Aires, Vilnius to Singapore, Madrid to Mainz). SHARP progresses, too, by continuing to expand the regional liaisons’ roles and number (our first liaison to the Arctic was recently appointed); in further supporting other-than English scholarship and activities; in working to protect and develop transnational interests internally throughout the society; in supporting campaigning initiatives; and by adopting closer relationships to disenfranchised, under-resourced communities as a logical extension of scholarship. Overall, and within the scope of the position, these points of progression have and will continue to comprise my strategic approach to the Directorship.
The position’s requirement, and my strategy, is to continue developing SHARP’s ability to become a sustainable transnational organisation, an aim that we have been achieving in a step-by-step manner since my revamping of the Directorship back in 2012. As a voluntary organisation, and with members’ capacity limited by other working commitments, SHARP’s progress is achieved by creating opportunities to co-ordinate private ambitions with the life of the society: especially among ECRs, in initiatives such as the ECR Lightening Seed grants and the Transnational Affairs budget for regional SHARP activities (over 30 funded-events to date, in locations from Taipei/Taiwan to Buenos Aires, Vilnius to Singapore, Madrid to Mainz). SHARP progresses, too, by continuing to expand the regional liaisons’ roles and number (our first liaison to the Arctic was recently appointed); in further supporting other-than English scholarship and activities; in working to protect and develop transnational interests internally throughout the society; in supporting campaigning initiatives; and by adopting closer relationships to disenfranchised, under-resourced communities as a logical extension of scholarship. Overall, and within the scope of the position, these points of progression have and will continue to comprise my strategic approach to the Directorship.