The Current Team

The current Collective team are listed below. Additionally we work more broadly from colleagues in History, Classics and Archaeology, the University's Business School, Geography section, Law School, and Medical School. We are ably supported by our editorial intern Edward Garnett.

Dr Alaa Alameri

  • Associate Researcher
  • Working with the Collective to introduce oral history into teaching and research in Iraq’s HE sector.

Sue Bradley

  • Research Associate
  • Email:
  • Telephone: 0191 208 4609
  • Sue Bradley is an experienced oral historian. Having worked in the Centre for Rural Economy for the past ten years, Sue brings a non-urban focus to the unit’s work.

Dr Sarah Campbell

  • Senior Lecturer in Irish/British History
  • Telephone: 0191 208 7842
  • Sarah Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Irish/British History, researches student activism and has led History’s Oral History and Memory modules at both undergraduate and MA levels.

Dr Niamh Dillon

  • Associate Researcher
  • Oral History Unit
  • Niamh Dillon, Associate Researcher an experienced oral historian and life history interviewer. Niamh has led our reading group and has published on imperial identities. 

Ryan Fallon

  • Northern Bridge Studentship Recipient

Silvie Fisch

  • Associate Researcher
  • Oral History Unit
  • Email:
  • Silvie's extensive experience includes using oral history in community and cultural development work, historical interpretation and heritage engagement.

Edward Garnett

  • Communications Intern
  • Edward Garnett, our Communications Intern, is a History graduate from Newcastle University, and has studied oral history both during his degree and at the Srebrenica Memorial Center BiH.

Dr Jack Hepworth

Dr Ben Houston

  • Senior Lecturer, Modern US History
  • Ben Houston, Senior Lecturer in Modern US History, researches African American history since 1945 and uses oral histories in both teaching and research projects, including on civil rights.

Ally Keane

Dr Hannah James Louwerse

Dr Joe Redmayne

Professor Graham Smith

Lily Tidman

  • Associate Researcher
  • 'Who cares? Health volunteering and political participation in the "far North" of England, 1979-1997' (funded by AHRC Northern Bridge).

Dr Kate Wilson