Associate Professor in Creativity and Literary Culture, University of Exeter & Co-director, The Literary Platform
Dr Anna Kiernan is Associate Professor of Creativity and Literary Culture at the University of Exeter. She is also co-director at The Literary Platform and co-founded Circe, a creative leadership network. Anna’s work centres around storytelling, creative innovation and partnership brokering for organisational change. Alongside her academic roles, she has worked with communications departments at organisations such as The Guardian, Everyman Cinema and Lush Cosmetics and for government agencies (DEFRA and the Department for Transport), to enhance their approach to storytelling in the digital age.