About Dr Carson
Educational Background
In 1996 I was appointed as an Institutional Research Fellow in the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway. My digital theatre history work includes The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance Archive, Cambridge University Press, 2000 and a large AHRB funded research project entitled Designing Shakespeare: an audio visual database, 1960-2000 which documents the performance history of Shakespeare in Stratford and London. Some of the research material from Designing Shakespeare is now available on Digital Theatre Plus.
In 2011 I was promoted to the position of Reader in Shakespeare and Performance in the English Department at Royal Holloway. I became the Director of the English and Drama and English and Film Programmes in 2015 and I was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2018. In May 2023 I became Reader Emerita.
Throughout my career I have worked with students from a variety of backgrounds to promote a sense of confidence and self-worth, helping young people to reach their potential.
