Staff Profile:David Sutton
- Name:
- Dr David Sutton
- Job Title:
- Director, Research Projects
- Responsibilities:
David is responsible for four research projects:
Awards:
Benson Medal for outstanding services to literature, Royal Society of Literature, 2003
Archivist of the Year, Scone Foundation, New York, 2006
Other roles:
Member of the committees of GLAM (the Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts) and the UK Literary Heritage Working Group. Chair of GLAM, 2010-
Chair/Président of the Section for Archives of Literature and Art (SLA) of the International Council on Archives (ICA)
Contributing member of the MILE and ARROW working groups on “orphan works”
Associate Member of the University of Reading English Department
Coordinator of the Reading Fairtrade Town Committee
Leader of Reading Borough Council (1995-2008) and former vice-chair of the Local Government Information Unit
Member of the Board of Reading Buses. Chair of the Board, 2010-
Trustee of the Earley Charity (1987- )
Member of Society of Authors and Royal Society of Literature; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts
Contributor to the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
Research interests:
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.
Examples of 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. Locating UK copyright holders. Electronically published on the WATCH site
- Sutton, D. The WATCH Project (PDF). SCONUL Newsletter 28, Spring 2003, p. 67.
- Sutton, D. C. ‘Locating literary manuscripts’. Reading reading, Spring 1991, pp. 20-21.
- Sutton, D.C. ‘Copyright issues in archives’. Paper given at the Annual Conference of the Greek Society of Archivists, Athens, February 2006; abstract at www.eae.org.gr/congress/Papers/papers.html]
- Sutton, D. C. 'Historia de las ales inglesas’. Paper given at Carmona, September 2007, “en el programa del curso Curso interdisciplinario: La cerveza y su mundo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla”.
- Sutton, D.C. ‘The language of the food of the poor: studying proverbs with Jean-Louis Flandrin’, in Food and language: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2009, edited by Richard Hosking. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2010, pp. 330-339.
- Sutton, D. C.: ‘The stories of bacalao: myth, legend and history’, in Cured, fermented and smoked foods: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010, by Helen Saberi. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2011, pp. 312-321.
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