Steve Wharton

Steve Wharton is Associate Professor of French and Communication at the University of Bath's Department of Politics, Language and International Studies,^[1] where he has worked since 1990. He was appointed to a consultancy role as Interim Head of Governance from mid-February to the end of July 2019.

After primary school education at Wimborne St Giles followed by Cranborne Middle School and Queen Eizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster, Wharton read French and German at Aston University before remaining there for his PhD. First appointed to a lectureship in French Studies at the University of Manchester, Wharton moved in 1990 to Bath where he has remained since. Between 2000 and 2008 he served on the National Executive of both the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the University and College Union (UCU) which was formed through the AUT's merger with Natfhe in 2006; he was the last AUT President (2005/06)^[2] and first joint President of UCU (2006/07)

In 2012 the French Government made him Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French Culture.

December 2022 saw him appointed to the Board of Education Support, where he sits on its Governance, Delivery and People Committee.

He joined the Board of Governors of Badminton School in September 2023, where he chairs its Education and Welfare Committee.

He is the author of Screening Reality: French Documentary Film during the German Occupation. Oxford: Lang, 2006. ISBN 9780820468822.^[3]