Professor Jane Martin

School of Education
Professor of Social History of Education

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 7446
Email: j.martin@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Education
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Jane moved to Birmingham from the Institute of Education, University of London, where she was Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches and researches on gender and history, education policy and social justice, and research methods in education. Her publications include Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England, winner of the History of Education Society (UK) Book Prize 2002 and Making Socialists: Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power 1855-1939 (2010). Her books with Joyce Goodman include Women and Education 1800-1980 (2004) and a 4-volume set for Routledge Women and Education: Major Themes in Education.

Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (London Metropolitan)
PhD (Open)
MA (Warwick)
BA (Open)

Teaching

BA Education

Postgraduate supervision

Jane supervises a number of doctoral students on topics such as the Educational Equalities and the 'Self-Improving School System' in England.

She would welcome applications from those with research interests in social and labour movements, gender and education, teacher unionism and politics and policy-making in education in the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

Research

Currently she is completing a manuscript for Gender and History a Palgrave book series: Gender and Education in England since 1770: a social history. Future publications include a biography of the educationalist Caroline Benn (1926-2000).

Other activities

Jane is a past editor of the journal History of Education and was the Brian Simon BERA Educational Research Fellow for 2004/5. She is a former President of the UK History of Education Society and served on the Education Sub-panel for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) on behalf of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils. Currently she is editor of Educational Review and co-editor of Progressive Education: Policy, Politics and Practice – a Routledge book series.