Professor Jane Martin

School of Education
Professor of Social History of Education
Director, Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Histories of Education and Childhood

Contact details

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

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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 is Director of the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Histories of Education and Childhood and Executive Editor of Educational Review.

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

Ed D Education

Module lead 'Educational Practices for Social Justice and Equity'

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 Executive Editor of Educational Review and co-editor of Progressive Education: Policy, Politics and Practice – a Routledge book series.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Martin, J 2010, Making Socialists Mary Bridges Adams and the Fight for Knowledge and Power 1855-1939. Manchester University Press.

Article

Martin, J 2019, 'Against private schools: culture, power and myths of equality', Forum, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 349-364. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2019.61.3.349

Martin, J & Benn, M 2018, 'The 'patron saint' of comprehensive education: an interview with Clyde Chitty. Part two', Forum, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 11-30. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2018.60.1.11

Martin, J & Benn, M 2017, 'The 'patron saint' of comprehensive education: an interview with Clyde Chitty. Part one', Forum, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 309-324. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2017.59.3.309

Martin, J 2015, 'Building Comprehensive Education: Caroline Benn and Holland Park School', Forum, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 363-386. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2015.57.3.363

Martin, J 2014, 'Intellectual Portraits: politics, professions and identity in twentieth century England', History of Education, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 740-767. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2014.964019

Martin, J 2014, 'Neglected Women Historians: the case of Joan Simon', Forum, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 541-566.

Martin, J 2013, 'Gender, education and social change : a study of feminist politics and practice in London, 1870–1990', Gender and Education, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 56-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2012.740887

Martin, J 2012, 'Interpreting Biography in the History of Education: Past and Present', History of Education, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 87-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2012.641268

Martin, J 2008, 'Beyond suffrage: feminism, education and the politics of class in the inter-war years', British Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 411-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425690802160351

Martin, J 2008, 'Engendering city politics and educational thought: elite women and the London Labour Party, 1914-1965', Paedagogica Historica, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230802218223

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Martin, J 2016, Education Policy. in AS Crines & K Hickson (eds), Harold Wilson the unprincipled prime minister?. Biteback Publishing, London, pp. 131-148, Book Launch, London, United Kingdom, 23/03/16.

Martin, J 2016, Intellectual Women, Social Science, and Political Power: municipal feminism and reform at the London School of Economics, 1895-1960. in EL Panayotidis & P Storz (eds), Women in Higher Education 1850-1970. Routledge Research in Gender and History, Routledge, New York & London, pp. 119-144.