This week the Arts and Humanities Research Council announced the recepients of 10 new research fellowships for projects supporting Equality, Diverstiy and Inclusion. We are absolutely delighted that our colleague Professor Hannah Thompson will become an EDI Fellow for her project 'Inclusive description for equality and access (IDEA)'.

Professor Thompson's project focuses on inclusive audio description at the theatre. In this year-long initiative, she will be working with audio-description providers VocalEyes and Mind's Eye, access champion Vicky Ackroyd from Totally Inclusive People, and theatre companies including Mind the Gap Studios, The Octagon Bolton, the Donmar Warehouse and Shakespeare's Globe.

Professor Thompson is a a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French fiction witha a particular interest in how various protected characteristics (such as gender, sexuality and disability) have been evoked and discussed by French writers.

Further information about the AHRC EDI Fellowships here.