Dr Georgina Brewis

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Research Officer
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Summary:
    • 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 research interests lie in the areas of education, youth and voluntary action. 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. Other recent work looks at the history of volunteering by higher education students, the establishment of long-term overseas volunteering programmes and the development of volunteering in post-war Britain.

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 733
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Davis Smith, J., Ellis, A. and Brewis, G. (2005) 'Cross-National Volunteering: A developing movement?' In J. Brudney (ed.), Emerging Areas of Volunteering. ARNOVA Occasional Papers Series 1, no. 2 .
  • Brewis, G. (2011) 'Youth in action? British young people and voluntary service 1958-1970' In M. Oppenheimer and N. Deakin (eds), Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the Wider British World. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Brewis, G. (2010) 'From service to action?: Students, volunteering and community action in mid twentieth-century Britain', British Journal of Educational Studies 58(4), 439-449.
  • Brewis, G. (2010) '"Fill full the mouth of famine": Voluntary action in Indian famine relief 1896-1901', Modern Asian Studies 44(4), 887-918.
  • Brewis, G. (2009) 'From working parties to social work: Middle-class girls' education and social service 1890-1914', History of Education 38(06), 761-777.
  • Brewis, G., Russell, J. and Holdsworth, C. (2010) Bursting the Bubble: Students, Volunteering and the Community . Bristol: NCCPE.
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