Sarah Speight

Did You Know?

• Speight completed a Bachelor of Arts in history at the University of Manchester.
• Her PhD was supervised by Philip Dixon.
• She has published in Château Gaillard: Études de castellologie médiévale.

Career

Speight joined Nottingham Trent University as Deputy Vice Chancellor in August 2024. Previously, she was Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience at the University of Nottingham, where she also taught for the Schools of Continuing Education, Education, and History, and served as head of the School of Education for five years. After completing her PhD, she began with a part-time teaching role in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Nottingham.

In 2006, she received the university's Lord Dearing Award for outstanding achievements in enhancing the student learning experience, and in 2013 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. Speight was Honorary Treasurer of the Castle Studies Group between 1998 and 2001, and from 2001 to 2006 served as Archaeology Editor for the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. Her castle expertise led to appearances on Time Team episodes about Beaudesert Castle (2002) and Codnor Castle (2008).

She contributed a study of castle chapels to a movement examining the impact of castles on settlements and the landscape.