Councillor Corinne Fowler is an Honorary Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at the University of Leicester Corinne Fowler | University of Leicester. A public historian, she authored Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through Colonial Britain (Penguin, 2024).

Between 2018 and 2020, Corinne directed a child-led history and writing project called Colonial Countryside Colonial Countryside | National Trust | National Trust before co-authoring the 2020 National Trust report on country houses’ connections to empire Colonialism and historic slavery report | National Trust, a peer-reviewed audit of published academic research which won the Museums and Heritage Special Judges Award and an Eastern Eye award, in 2022.

Corinne co-curated ‘The Colonial Brontes’ exhibition The Colonial Brontës | The Brontë Parsonage Museum at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. She was co-investigator on 'Addressing the Histories and Legacies of Empire in Literary House Museums: Dove Cottage and Beyond', which brought together academics, consultants, stakeholders and community groups to investigate the colonial links of Romantic-period literary house museums. She was also a co-investigator of the Rural Racism Project with Professor Neil Chakraborti and Dr Amy Clarke from the Centre for Hate Studies.

Corinne is currently a Councillor for Bournbrook and Selly Park.