Institute of Education London

Professor Gary McCulloch

• Qualifications and position:
  • MA, PhD, FR Hist S
  • Brian Simon Professor of History of Education
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Humanities and Social Science
• Summary:
  • My principal interests are in the history of education, including curriculum history, the history of secondary education, the history of teachers and teaching, the history of educational policy, historical perspectives on current educational issues, historical theory and methodology relating to education, and documentary research methods
• Teaching:
  • History of Education
    Understanding Education Research
• Research Projects:
  • Raising the School Leaving Age (ESRC project)
    The life and contribution of Brian Simon
    Nuffield Science
• Professional Activities:
  • Member of advisory boards of History of Education, History of Education review, History of Education Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration and History, Paedagogica Historica Member of Arts and Humanities Research Council peer review college and advisory groups for the Economic and Social Research Council
• Conferences/presentations:
  • • 'Towards a social history of learners and learning', SCUTREA annual conference, Cambridge, 6 July 2009
    • 'History of education and the struggle for educational reform', Institute of Historical Research history of education seminar, London, 9 October 2008
    • 'Education, history and social science: the changing rationales of the history of education', international symposium on the raison d'etre of the history of education, Copenhagen, 17 April 2008
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand: History of education
• Media Appearances:
  • Yes
• SIG Membership:
  • History of Education
• Research Students:
  • My research interests relate to the history of education.
    My current postgraduate researchers are:
    Steven Cowan - Public literacy in eighteenth century England
    Sandy Kennedy - Catholic education in nineteenth century Brighton
    Marlene Laing - Multiculturalism and the history curriculum, 1976-1988
    Mary Newman - The educational work of the Catholic Women's League, 1906-1923