HES (UK) Committee
The History of Education Society (UK) Executive Committee comprises thirteen members and meets four times a year. Currently, the committee includes the following members:
Catherine Burke is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Current research interests include, material cultures of childhood and education; the historical and contemporary relationship between pedagogy and architecture and design in learning environments; and visual methods in incorporating a child's view or perspective in research. She has co-authored two books with Ian Grosvenor - The School I'd Like (Routledge 2003) and School (Reaktion 2008). She has edited a special issue of Paedagogica Historica, 'Containing the School Child. Architectures and Pedagogies', August, 2005, and in 2007 a special issue of History of Education on the theme of 'The Body of the Schoolchild in the History of Education'. The Annual Conference of the Society was organised by Catherine in December 2009 and was held in Sheffield with the theme 'Putting Education in its Place'. She is also the 'Sources and Interpretations' editor for the History of Education journal.
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 is Director of Teaching & Learning at the University of Exeter’s Graduate School of Education. 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, Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU. Telephone: 01392 724818. Email: r.j.k.freathy@ex.ac.uk.
Joyce Goodman is Professor of History of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care at the University of Winchester. She is the President of the History of Education Society. Joyce's research lies predominantly in the history of women's education and she has a particular interest in colonial, imperial, international and transnational aspects of girls' and women's education. Joyce is a founding member of the Centre for the History of Women's Education. With Jane Martin, Joyce is a former co-editor of History of Education, having previously been co-editor of the History of Education Society Bulletin (renamed History of Education Researcher). Joyce was Secretary to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) for six years. Joyce edited Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England:Authoritative Women since 1800 (Routledge, 2000) with Sylvia Harrop, and Gender, Colonialism and Education: the Political Experience of Education (Woburn, 2002) with Jane Martin, with whom she jointly authored Women and Education 1800-1976: Educational Reform and Personal Identity (Palgrave, 2004). She has recently co-edited Girls' Secondary Education in the Western World: From the 18th to the 20th Century, with James Albisetti and Rebecca Rogers (Palgrave in press). She is currently editing Women and Education in Routledge's Major Themes Series, jointly with Jane Martin. With Sylvia Harrop, Joyce co-directed a project funded by the major grants programme of the Spencer Foundation (USA), researching the role of women in the governance of girls' secondary education since 1870.
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 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. He was the Editor of the journal History of Education from 1996 until 2003. Since September 2003 he has been the first Brian Simon Professor of Education at the Institute of Education London , and currently also serves as the Dean of Research and Consultancy at the Institute. He is a member of the Research Assessment Exercise sub-Panel in Education in the UK . Prior to taking up his current post, Gary was Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield , and before that he was Professor of Educational Research at Lancaster University. His research interests in the history of education include the history of secondary education, teachers, the school curriculum, comparative and international approaches, and theoretical and methodological approaches. He was joint organiser (with Joyce Goodman and William Richardson) of the Economic and Social Research Council seminar series ‘Social change in the history of education’ (2004-2006) and chairs the monthly History of Education Seminar series at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. His recent publications include Cyril Norwood and the Ideal of Secondary Education (Palgrave Macmillan), The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education (jointed editor with David Crook, Routledge), History, Politics and Policy-making: A festschrift for Richard Aldrich (joint editor with David Crook, Institute of Education), The Death of the Comprehensive High School (joint editor with Barry Franklin, Palgrave Macmillan), Social Change in the History of Education (joint editor with Joyce Goodman and William Richardson, Routledge).
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 includeFemale 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).Sheis 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).
Nicola Sheldon is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She is currently working on the two-year History in Education project to create a ‘history of history teaching’ since 1900. This incorporates an oral history project working with teachers and former pupils, as well as curriculum innovators and those influential in the formation of the National Curriculum for history. She spent 16 years working in 16-19 education, teaching A level history and politics at several sixth form colleges before completing her MSc and DPhil at Oxford University from 2003-7. Her initial research interests focused on truancy and changing policies for dealing with it, raising of the school leaving age and school-family relationships. She has published articles on the web for History and Policy (www.historyandpolicy.org) on these themes as well as journal articles for History of Education Researcher , History of Education (Nov. 2007) and Local Population Studies (Autumn 2009). More recently, she has moved into study of the history of child care institutions from 1870-1930 with a recent article in History of Education (Nov. 2009). Further work is forthcoming in two edited volumes due to be published in 2011. Her contact details are: Dr Nicola Sheldon, History in Education Project, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU. Telephone: 0207 862 8804. Email: nicola.sheldon@sas.ac.uk
Stephanie Spencer is secretary of the History of Education Society and currently Head of Department - Education Studies at The University of Winchester with special interest in history and gender. She completed her PhD ‘Girls and Career Choice in the late 1950s: constructions of the female role' in 2001, now published as Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s by Palgrave. 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. Publications include articles in History of Education, Women's History Review, Paedagogica Historica and Journal of Educational Administration and History. She is on the editorial board of Women's History Review and Journal of Educational Administration and History. Her current research interests include co convening an ESRC seminar series on Women in Britain in the 1950s with Penny Tinkler (Manchester) and Claire Langhamer (Sussex), the Alumni Voices oral history project at the University of Winchester and transnational femininities in girls' school and college stories with Nancy Rosoff (Rutgers). She convenes the Centre for the History of Women's Education, based at The University of Winchester.
Tom Woodin is a senior lecturer in education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has written on worker writers and community publishing in the UK since the 1970s and is currently producing on a book on the topic. He leads two research projects, one funded by the ESRC on the history of the school leaving age (with Gary McCulloch and Steve Cowan) as well as a history of community and mutual ownership for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (with David Crook and Vincent Carpentier). In 2007-8 he was the British Educational Research Association Brian Simon Fellow. His other research interests include education and the co-operative movement, the life and work of Brian Simon, the social history of learning and education in relation to social movements. He co-edits the History of Education Researcher with Susannah Wright.
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.
