David Sutton
Visiting Research Fellow
David is responsible for four research projects:
Awards
- Benson Medal for outstanding services to literature, Royal Society of Literature, 2002
- Archivist of the Year, Scone Foundation, New York, 2006
- Location Register / WATCH / FOB have been jointly recognised by the British Academy with the status of Academy Research Project (ARP)
Other roles
- Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR),
- Member of the committees of GLAM (the Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts) and the UK Literary Heritage Working Group. Chair of GLAM, 2010-2017
- Chair/Président of the (SLA) of the International Council on Archives (ICA)
- Contributing member of the MILE and ARROW working groups on “orphan works”
- Associate Member of the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø English Department
- Coordinator of the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Fairtrade Town Committee
- Leader of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Borough Council (1995-2008) and former vice-chair of the Local Government Information Unit
- Member of the Board of ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Buses. Chair of the Board, 2010-
- Trustee of the Earley Charity (1987- )
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; Member of the Society of Authors
- Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2013-2019
International Project Partners, 2015-2022
Areas of interest
Literary manuscripts and literary research; international locations of primary literary materials; copyright and orphan works; international cooperation and fair trade; urban development and municipal government; food history.
Publications
- Sutton, D. 'Keeping WATCH: tracking down copyright holders'. Library and information update. 4 (12), December 2005, pp. 42-43.
- Sutton, D. 'The copyright detectives'. The Bookseller. 9 July 1999, pp. 24-26.
- Sutton, D. . Electronically published on the WATCH site
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