Institute of Education, University of London

Faculty Member, Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy

Research Officer

About

I am a historian of voluntary action, education and youth. I am currently researching and writing a book on the history of volunteering and social action by higher education students.

I am a postdoctoral Research Officer on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'Social Change and English: A study of three English departments 1945-65'. The research looks at how social and cultural developments in the twenty years after the Second World War played out in the teaching of English in London in three London secondary schools.

My PhD thesis, completed in 2009, explored how the imperial experience shaped patterns of charitable giving and voluntary service in Britain and India before 1914, with a focus on young people's social service and education.

I am also interested in long-term overseas volunteering programmes and the development of volunteering in post-war Britain.

I am the Publicity Secretary of the Voluntary Action History Society and a member of a committee organising a major conference in London 2014, 'Education, War and Peace'.

Follow me on twitter @DrGinaB or @vahs_uk

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