I am delighted to announce that the Sussex Centre assistant during Heather Robbins’s maternity leave will be Kathryn Seal. I am grateful to all the applicants for their interest in the Sussex Centre post, and especially to the six short-listed candidates for making themselves available for interview.
Human Resources and I rigorously checked each applicant against the job criteria and scored each of them. This outcome says less about the quality of the unsuccessful candidates than it does about the number and strength of the field of applicants. I was astounded to have so many highly qualified applicants for a temporary, part-time post.
Since she was a student in English & Creative Writing at the University of Chichester some years ago, Kathryn has had a very successful career in Marketing and Event Management, and has achieved some significant successes in capturing funding. These are skills which will be very helpful to the Sussex Centre in the coming months. I look forward to working with her.
Bill Gray,
Director, Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy