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Dr Ian McCormick: Dr Ian McCormick served as a University Professor. Most recent book: Class and Cloister: The St Andrews Correspondence. Awards and Prizes include King James VI Prize; Lawson Memorial Prize; British Academy Research Studentship. Ian's work has been featured on the BBC (Radio and TV); in the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Guardian, Time Out (London), and in academic journals. He has organized two international conferences for the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, at the University of Oxford and two International Community Film Festivals.

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