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Steve Wharton

Steve Wharton is Senior Lecturer in French and Communication at the University of Bath's Department of Politics, Language and International Studies, where he has worked since 1990. He is a social and cultural historian whose research has three main strands:
 * LGBT activism (including perceptions and portrayals of homosexuality, and the 'gay marriage'debate)
 * Political communication
 * The German Occupation of France, and its Legacy

Now Honorary Vice Secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, he previously served twice as both Hon Treasurer and Hon Secretary.

Between 2000 and 2008 Wharton 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) and first joint President of UCU (2006/07). He led the union when it successfully took industrial action to raise salaries for the sector March-June 2006 resulting in the highest uplift in scale for almost 20 years, in part through the application of his tenet of matching the aspirations of activists to the pragmatics of circumstances.

Since 2013 he has been Chair of Directors of the trustee company of Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI), and has served as Vice-Chair of its Management Committee since 2011.

In February 2012 the French Government appointed him Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French Culture.