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Simon Brooks
Simon Brooks (born 1971) is a Welsh academic and writer.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Swansea University, an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in history, the history of ideas, multiculturalism, political theory and public policy. He is also a member of the University's Morgan Academy.
Brooks has also been appointed as an advisor to the Welsh Government as a member of the Welsh Language Partnership Council, for which he published the report 'Second homes: Developing new policies in Wales' in 2021. Recommendations underpinned government policy in the area.
In 2020 he chaired the government committee established to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales on Welsh-speaking community groups. Once again, the Committee recommendations underpin government policy.
Brooks is an independent author and is a former editor of the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn (1996–2007), and between 1993 and 1996 was a founding co-editor of the Welsh language cultural magazine Tu Chwith. A collection of his journalism in Barn was published in 2009. Brooks is the General Editor of Dawn Dweud, the University of Wales Press series of intellectual biographies.
His book Pam Na Fu Cymru (2015; English version: Why Wales Never Was) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year award in the non-fiction category. The English edition was published in 2017. Jerry Hunter, Professor in the School of Welsh and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Bangor University, said of Why Wales Never Was, "This is a multi-layered study that tackles core questions about nationality, language and identity. It talks about the past with a view to the present and the future, in a challenging and exciting way."
In 2005 O Dan Lygaid y Gestapo (Beneath the eyes of the Gestapo) was also shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.
As a cultural historian, Brooks has published three monographs with the University of Wales Press. O Dan Lygaid y Gestapo (University of Wales Press; 2014) explored the influence of Enlightenment thought within 20th century Welsh-language culture. Pam na fu Cymru (University of Wales Press; 2015) proposed that the historical failure of Welsh nationalism was due to its dependence on a form of British liberalism which promoted Anglophone majoritarianism. Hanes Cymry (University of Wales Press;2021), the first history of ethnic diversity within Welsh-language culture, argued that the Welsh-language community has always been multi-ethnic.
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Simon Brooks
Simon Brooks (born 1971) is a Welsh academic and writer.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Swansea University, an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in history, the history of ideas, multiculturalism, political theory and public policy. He is also a member of the University's Morgan Academy.
Brooks has also been appointed as an advisor to the Welsh Government as a member of the Welsh Language Partnership Council, for which he published the report 'Second homes: Developing new policies in Wales' in 2021. Recommendations underpinned government policy in the area.
In 2020 he chaired the government committee established to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales on Welsh-speaking community groups. Once again, the Committee recommendations underpin government policy.
Brooks is an independent author and is a former editor of the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn (1996–2007), and between 1993 and 1996 was a founding co-editor of the Welsh language cultural magazine Tu Chwith. A collection of his journalism in Barn was published in 2009. Brooks is the General Editor of Dawn Dweud, the University of Wales Press series of intellectual biographies.
His book Pam Na Fu Cymru (2015; English version: Why Wales Never Was) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year award in the non-fiction category. The English edition was published in 2017. Jerry Hunter, Professor in the School of Welsh and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Bangor University, said of Why Wales Never Was, "This is a multi-layered study that tackles core questions about nationality, language and identity. It talks about the past with a view to the present and the future, in a challenging and exciting way."
In 2005 O Dan Lygaid y Gestapo (Beneath the eyes of the Gestapo) was also shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.
As a cultural historian, Brooks has published three monographs with the University of Wales Press. O Dan Lygaid y Gestapo (University of Wales Press; 2014) explored the influence of Enlightenment thought within 20th century Welsh-language culture. Pam na fu Cymru (University of Wales Press; 2015) proposed that the historical failure of Welsh nationalism was due to its dependence on a form of British liberalism which promoted Anglophone majoritarianism. Hanes Cymry (University of Wales Press;2021), the first history of ethnic diversity within Welsh-language culture, argued that the Welsh-language community has always been multi-ethnic.