Research students

Current postgraduate research students supervised by members of ICHRE:

Nazlin Bhimani, ‘The Relationship between Teacher Training at the London Day Training College and Teachers’ Classroom Practice in London Elementary Schools During the Interwar Years’.
Mary Campbell-Day, ‘Mary Gurney and Her Circle: Sustaining Female Education in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England’.
Emily Charkin, ‘Building a community together’: Past and present meanings of manual work at Kilquhanity School (1940-1996) and Wennington School (1940-75)’.
Anne Collignon, ‘Constructing a Critical Account of the History of a Single School: Copenhagen International School 1962-2017’.
Conan de Wilde, ‘The Crucible of the International Baccalaureate: Humanities Teaching at the International School of Geneva (1949-1972)’.
May Kyi Han, ‘The role of donor agencies in basic education policy reform in myanmar from 2012-2017.’
Anne Heavey, ‘The Presentation of the Extraordinary Woman in the Primary History Curriculum and the Construction of Gender Identity in the Classroom’.
Karen Lillie, ‘An investigation of students’ national identities at an international secondary school in Switzerland’
Rebecca Payne, ‘Global Knowledge and the Dominant City: Higher Education, Imperialism and London’ (funded by ESRC UBEL DTP).
Kelly Power, ‘Changing Childhoods: The Educational Experiences of Working-Class Children in the 1860s’ (based at King’s College London, funded by AHRC London Arts & Humanities Partnership).
Judith Rose, Exploring the relationship between adult literacy education and the development of education for adults with learning difficulties in England 1970-2010.
Monica Rude, ‘All Kinds of Sense: The Origins of the Common Application’ (EdD).
Yaobin Tong, ‘Citizenship education in a Chinese university.’
Lydia Townsend, ‘Published Writing on Educational Examination by Staff and Students at University College London 1826-1926.’
Edward Whiffin, ‘Public Schools, Politics and Associational Culture in England 1900-1939’.
Laura Whittle, ‘Narratives of education, family and class in 1980s Essex’.
Min You, ‘Sowing the Seeds of Chinese Female Education, 1819-1844’.
Peng Zhang, ‘Knowledge and Politics: Evolution of the British Image in Chinese Secondary School History and Literature Textbooks’.

Recently completed students:

Qianyun Yu (2019), ‘Understanding purposes, practices and impacts of museum educational programmes: a case study of a provincial museum in Hangzhou, China’.
Maria Patricia Williams (2018), ‘The Contribution of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini to Catholic Educational Practice 1880-1917.’
Marlene Laing, (2018) ‘Discourses of Reform in the History Curriculum in England and Wales, 1976-1988’.
Grace Rose (2017), ‘Education and Older Learners: Experience and Politics, 1997-2010.’
Alice Kirke (2016), ‘Education in Interwar Rural England: Community, Schooling, and Voluntarism’.
Mari Hiraoka (2015), ‘A Modern Utopia? Images of the Japanese education system in Britain, c. 1860-1914’.
Davina Kirby (2015), ‘The influence of teacher media images on professional teacher identities’.
Ren-Jie Lin (2014), ‘Transnational knowledge dissemination and recontextualization: the development of British educational foundation disciplines in Taiwan, 1868-2013’.