Carolyn Cummings-Osmond

Prior to joining the lecturing staff at Solent, Carolyn worked as managing editor and product development manager at Philip and Tacey, Ltd. While there, Carolyn was responsible for managing the educational product development programme for the Boston and UK offices.

Carolyn belongs to the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) and has worked with the creative team at WPP’s The Store to provide editorial and copy services. In turn, they provided insight into exciting global developments that are taking place in retail. Carolyn contributed to the following publications (available digitally or in hard copy):

• The History of Retail in 100 Objects (in conjunction with Intel).
• The Thoughts of Chairmen Now: Wisdom from China’s business leaders and entrepreneurs (published in conjunction with Grant Thornton).
• The Power and Potential of the Chinese Dream.
• BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands 2014 (in conjunction with Millward Brown).

In February 2014 Carolyn attended the parliamentary launch of China’s most valuable brands where Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP’s CEO, was the keynote speaker.

Carolyn studies, writes and presents about representations of widows in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and in contemporary culture and has given conference papers at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, University of Wales (Swansea), University of Aberdeen and at Warwick University.

Carolyn belongs to BSECS (the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) and the Women’s History Network.

Carolyn has been nominated by students for Solent STAR teaching awards on four occasions: 2021 Outstanding Teaching, 2019 Best Academic Supervisor, 2016 Outstanding Feedback (winner), 2013 Outstanding Feedback. In 2019, Carolyn was also nominated for a Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Award for Community Engagement.