{{Short description|Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|1=Academics|date=April 2021}} {{BLP one source|date=April 2021}} }}{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Matthew Innes | birth_date = | known_for = | thesis_title = | awards = Gladstone Book Prize | doctoral_advisor = Rosamond McKitterick | honorific_suffix = | workplaces = Peterhouse, Cambridge<br>University of Birmingham<br>University of York<br>Birkbeck, University of London | education = University of Cambridge | website = | birth_place = West Yorkshire }} '''Matthew Innes''' is a British academic and university administrator who was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London.<ref>[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/professor-matthew-innes/ Professor Matthew Innes] Birkbeck College, 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131213114329/http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/professor-matthew-innes/ Archived here.]</ref>
==Academic career== Innes grew up in West Yorkshire and by "sheer brute luck" earned a place to read History at the University of Cambridge. He earned a double first in his BA in 1991 and went on to complete a PhD in 1996, supervised by Rosamond McKitterick.<ref name="Birkbeck" />
Innes' first university appointment was to a Junior Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1994. After subsequent spells at the University of Birmingham and the University of York, he joined Birkbeck, University of London as Lecturer in History in 1999. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2004, and finally Professor in 2006.<ref name="Birkbeck">{{cite web |title=Prof Matt Innes |url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8006870/matt-innes |website=Birkbeck, University of London |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref>
Innes previously served as Head of the School of Historical Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birkbeck.<ref>{{cite web |title=About our governors |url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/governance/about-our-governors/ |website=Birkbeck, University of London |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref> In 2008 he was appointed Pro-Vice-Master with responsibility for strategy, and served on the college's board of governors as an academic representative between 2005 and 2009. He was appointed Vice Master in June 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Appointments - 6 June 2013 |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/people/appointments-6-june-2013/2004283.article |website=The Times Higher Education Supplement |date=6 June 2013 |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref> His title has since been changed to Deputy Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for academic and corporate affairs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Officers of the College |url=https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/governance/officers-of-the-college/ |website=Birkbeck, University of London |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref>
==Research== Innes' research interests are broadly located in the history of western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the eleventh century, with particular specialisms in economic, social and cultural history.<ref name="Birkbeck" />
==Media work== Innes has appeared twice as an expert panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''In Our Time'': first in 2006 on the Carolingian Renaissance,<ref>{{cite web |title=In Our Time, The Carolingian Renaissance |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hydz |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=30 January 2025}}</ref> and then in 2014 on the Battle of Tours.<ref>{{cite web |title=In Our Time, The Battle of Tours |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pm7dv |website=BBC Radio 4 |access-date=30 January 2025}}</ref>
==Honours and awards== * The Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research (2004)<ref>{{cite web |title=Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2004 |url=https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~dgcrowdy%20SKPrime.html/_press/Leverhulme2004.pdf |website=The Leverhulme Trust |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref> * The Royal Historical Society's Gladstone History Book Prize (2000) for ''State and society in the middle ages: the Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000''<ref>{{cite web |title=RHS Gladstone Past Winners |url=https://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/rhs-gladstone-past-winners/ |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=19 August 2024}}</ref>
==Personal life== Innes is married to Jayne.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Innes |first1=Matthew |title=State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000 |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521594554 |page=xiv}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * 'Memory, orality and literacy in an early medieval society', ''Past & Present'' 158 (1998), pp. 3-36 * ''State and society in the early Middle Ages: the Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) * ''The uses of the past in the early Middle Ages'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) (co-edited with Yitzhak Hen) * ''Introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 300-900: the sword, the plough and the book'' (London: Routledge, 2007) * ''The Carolingian world'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (co-authored with Marios Costambeys and Simon MacLean) * ''Documentary culture and the laity in the early Middle Ages'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) (co-edited with Warren C. Brown, Marios Costambeys and Adam J. Kosto) * 'Queenship in dispute: Fastrada, history and law', in Elina Screen and Charles West (eds.), ''Writing the early medieval West: essays in honour of Rosamond McKitterick'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 230-247
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