About Georgina

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Georgina Binnie-Wright is a public engagement practitioner working across the humanities and medical sectors.

She obtained her PhD from the University of Leeds School of English in 2016 with a dissertation on ‘James Joyce and Photography’, which she subsequently published with Bloomsbury’s Historicizing Modernism Series (2022).

Georgina was an Impact and Research Fellow (Writing Back Project) at the University of Leeds between 2017 and 2019, where she researched the impact of letter writing on loneliness in university students and older Yorkshire resident pen pals.

Her letter-writing project was featured on the BBC Breakfast Show, in ‘The Guardian’ and on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’.

Now based at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Georgina is a Postgraduate Programme Manager managing cancer-focused PhD programmes, including contributing to grant bids and working to enhance the postgraduate researcher experience.

She is passionate about public engagement and co-creating research with public and health benefits.

She remains research active and has a forthcoming chapter in ‘The Edinburgh Companion to James Joyce and the Arts’.