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Affiliated staff

The Centre draws together scholars from a wide range of departments and disciplines, including Anthropology, History, Geography, Law, and the Bartlett.

  • Sam Blaxland (IOE - Education, Practice and Society): historian of modern Britain; education, politics, society, oral history and the history of universities and students.
  • Georgina Brewis (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): history of voluntary action, humanitarianism, and higher education in Britain.
  • Joe Cain (Science & Technology Studies): specialist interests range widely, from history and legacy of eugenics to the famous dinosaur statues in Crystal Palace Park. 
  • Arthur Chapman (IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment): teaching and learning in History in formal and informal educational contexts, and wider questions relating to history pedagogy in public history, contemporary culture and historical theory.
  • Igor Cherstich (Social Research Institute): issues of migration in contemporary Britain, particularly in relation to asylum-seekers from North Africa.
  • Mark Freeman (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): history of modern Britain, focusing on the history of education, youth movements and informal education.
  • Ashraf Hoque (Social Research Institute): migration and diaspora, the anthropology of Islam, and political economy.
  • Ann Phoenix (Social Research Institute): motherhood, social identities, young people, racialisation and gender.
  • Victoria Redclift (Social Research Institute): sociology of migration and citizenship.
  • Jack Saunders (History): a labour historian, with a particular focus on power and agency in the post-war British workplace.
  • Joy Sleeman (Slade School of Fine Art): land art in Britain, works made directly in and of the stuff of the landscape.
  • Uta Staiger (European Institute): crisis, stasis and decisionism; mourning and the law in contemporary philosophy; and cultures of international negotiation.
  • Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (History): historian of twentieth century Britain
  • John Tomaney (Bartlett Planning):  urban and regional planning in the EU, UK and Australia.
  • James Wilson (Philosophy): public health ethics, the philosophy of public policy, and on the ownership and governance of ideas and information. 
  • Tom Woodin (IOE - Education, Practice & Society): social history of learning and learners, social movements, co-operation and everyday life in Modern Britain.
  • Sara Young (IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment): the relationship between language and identity, especially in the context of contemporary Britain, pre- and post-Brexit.