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Catherine
Burke
is Senior Lecturer at the
Malcolm Dick teaches at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and School of Education at the University of Birmingham where he also manages the Joseph Priestley and Birmingham Project and the University’s day and summer school programmes. After teaching in further education, he managed and edited the outputs of a widening participation project in the Black Country (1999-2000) and two community history projects in Birmingham: Millennibrum (2000-2002) and Revolutionary Players (2002-2004). He also works as a consultant for projects which are exploring the histories of minority communities. After completing a PhD at Leicester University with Don Jones, David Reeder and Brian Simon, Malcolm published work on the origins of English mass schooling. Since then he has written on the histories of migration, Birmingham, the West Midlands and the Midlands Enlightenment. In 2005 he contributed to Encarta 2005, edited Joseph Priestley and Birmingham (Brewin Books) and completed Birmingham: a history of the city and its people (Birmingham City Council). He has jointly edited a book on the Muslim Heritage (forthcoming 2006), is writing a history of the University of Birmingham and co-editing a book of conference papers: Ethnicity and Culture in the Global City with Tahir Abbas and Rajinder Dudrah. His research interests include cultural transmission during the English Enlightenment, the history of community relations and migrant groups and the ways in which identities are formed through education and other processes.
Rob Freathy Rob Freathy is Lecturer in History of Education and Director of Undergraduate Programmes at the University of Exeter’s School of Education & Lifelong Learning. Rob taught in secondary schools in Devon and Somerset before undertaking a PhD at Exeter (Religious Education and Education for Citizenship in English Schools, 1934-1944, 2005). He worked as a Research Assistant / Fellow on numerous Religious Education projects before undertaking collaborative research with Professor William Richardson on vocational and technical education in post-Second World War England (e.g. Colleges of Further Education in their Community Settings funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation in 2007). Rob has taught on the Secondary PGCE, Education Studies, Childhood & Youth Studies, MSc Educational Research, EdD and MPhil/PhD programmes. He has published articles in History of Education, History of Education Researcher, Oxford Review of Education, Religious Education (USA), British Journal of Religious Education and Journal of Beliefs and Values. He has contributed articles to G. McCulloch and D. Crook’s The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education (London: Routledge, 2008), as well as a chapter to A Creative Approach to Values Education through the Arts, Citizenship, PSHE and Religious Education (London: Cre8ed, 2001) by K. Underwood et al. Rob is also responsible for developing Exe Libris: The UK History of Education Society On-line Bibliography (in association with the University of Exeter). His contact details are: Dr. R. J. K. Freathy, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU. Telephone: 01392 264818. Email: r.j.k.freathy@ex.ac.uk.
Joyce
Good
Ian Grosvenor is Professor of Urban Educational History at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK. He has been involved in anti-racist politics and curriculum activity around Birmingham since the early 1980s. His first book was Assimilating Identities: Racism and Education in Post 1945 Britain (Lawrence and Wishart, 1997). Wrote The School I’d Like (Routledge 2003)and School (Reaktion 2008) with Catherine Burke and co-edited with Martin Lawn Materialities of Schooling. Design, Technology, Objects, Routines (Symposium Books, 2005).Current research focuses on new ways of conceptualising and presenting the educational past through consideration of issues relating to space, design, technology, the visual in education, artefacts and identity formation. Founding convenor of the History of Education Network within the European Education Research Association and co-founder of the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into the Cultural Histories of Education and Childhood at Birmingham.
Helen
Loader Jane Martin is Professor of Social History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London where she is course leader for the MA in History of Education. The author of Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England (Leicester University Press, 1999) which won the History of Education Society Book Prize for 2002 and Women and Education 1800-1980 (Palgrave, 2004) with Joyce Goodman, she was the Brian Simon Educational Research Fellow 2004-05 nominated by the British Educational Research Association. She is currently completing a typescript for Manchester University Press under the title: Making Socialists: Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power. Her research interests are focused on the educational experiences of girls and women, women’s engagement in educational policy-making through participation in local and national politics, socialist politics around education, biographical theory and biographical method, gender, education and empire. She is past editor of the journal History of Education. Address: Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL.
Gary
McCulloch
Kevin Myers is Senior Lecturer in Social history and Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. He serves on the editorial boards for the journals History of Education, Paedagogica Historica and Educational Review. He has research interests in the educational experiences of minority communities and he has published widely in this area.
Deirdre Raftery is Deputy Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, at University College Dublin. She has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where she lectured for five years before being appointed to the School of Education at University College Dublin. She has been external examiner at Dublin City University/Mater Dei College of Education, and at Trinity College Dublin, and is an honorary Life Member of Girton College Cambridge. She has published extensively in the field of history of education, and has delivered papers and guest lectures in Europe and North America. Deirdre Raftery is a Corresponding Editor for History of Education (Routledge Taylor Francis). She is also joint Editor-in-Chief of Gender & Education (Special Edition, Routledge Taylor Francis, 2008). Her book publications include Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna (with S. M. Parkes; 2007); Choosing a School: Second Level Education in Ireland (with C. KilBride; 2007); Emily Davies: Selected Letters, 1861-1875. (with A.B. Murphy; 2004) and Women & Learning in English Writing, 1600-1900 (1997). She is currently working on a contracted book, Irish Education: a Visual History. Chapters contributed to books include 'Strictures and Vindications: the use of eighteenth-century English writers in the education of the Irish poor, 1750-1850' in Education and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century: Prescriptions, Perceptions, Realities (eds. M. Hilton and J. Shefrin, forthcoming); ‘The Higher Education of Women in Ireland, 1860-1904’ in A Danger to the Men: A History of Women at Trinity College Dublin, 1904-2004 (ed. S. M. Parkes, 2004); ‘The nineteenth century governess: image and reality’ in Women and Work in Ireland, 1500-1930 (ed. B. Whelan, 2002); ‘Frances Power Cobbe’ in Women, Power and Consciousness in 19th Century Ireland (ed. M. Cullen & M. Luddy, 1996).
Stephanie Spencer is currently a lecturer in Education Studies at The University of Winchester with special interest in the history and gender modules. She completed her PhD ‘Girls and Career Choice in the late 1950s: constructions of the female role' in 2001. An article based on research for the thesis, ‘Schoolgirl to Career Girl: the city as educative space', won the ISCHE prize for best paper by new scholar at the Birmingham conference in 2001. She co-edits the History of Education Researcher ( formerly Bulletin) .Stephanie is actively involved in the National Women's History Network and together with Nicola Pullin co-organised the 2002 annual conference at Royal Holloway College, ‘Earning and Learning'; they are joint editors of the forthcoming special edition of Women's History Review based on papers from the conference. Publications include articles in History of Education, Women's History Review, Paedagogica Historica and Journal of Access and Credit Studies. Her current research interests include the Spencer funded project based at King Alfred's and Liverpool University on ‘Women and the Governance of Girls' Schools 1880-1990'. Work on this project is being developed in conjunction with the Centre for the History of Women's Education, based at The University of Winchester. Recent work has focused on the current experience of women returners to Higher Education. This included research for the Elizabeth Nuffield Educational Fund five year review in 2003. Stephanie is particularly interested in research methodology which combines the use of Oral History with archival research.
Ruth Watts
is Professor of History of Education
and co-convenor of the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Histories of
Education and Childhood at the University of Birmingham, England. Her teaching
and research interests are in history of education, gender and women’s history
and she has published on all these. Her many publications on the history of
gender and education have included Gender, Power and the Unitarians in
Susannah Wright is Senior Lecturer in Education at Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. She has served on the executive committee since 2003, first as graduate student representative, and now as co-editor (with Tom Woodin) of the History of Education Researcher. Her research interests focus on moral education in English elementary schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and sources for examining schools and schooling, and articles have been published in History of Education and History of Education and Children’s Literature. She has also worked on numerous contemporary funded research projects related to 14-19 and higher education. Susannah is currently developing and teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate Education and Childhood programmes at Oxford Brookes.
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Joyce Goodman is Professor of History of Education and Dean of the Faculty of
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is
past President of the History of Education Society, and has been a member
of the Society since 1981 and of its executive committee since 1992.