The Current Team
Dr Alaa Alameri
- Associate Researcher
- Mustansiriyah University
- Working with the Collective to introduce oral history into teaching and research in Iraq’s HE sector.
Sue Bradley
- Research Associate
- Oral History Unit
- Email: sue.bradley@newcastle.ac.uk
- 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
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- 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
- Postgraduate Researcher
- Ryan Fallon, appointed to a Northern Bridge Studentship, is producing new oral histories of the Stannington Sanatorium.
Silvie Fisch
- Associate Researcher Oral History Unit
- Email: Silvia.Fisch@newcastle.ac.uk
- Silvie's extensive experience includes using oral history in community and cultural development work, historical interpretation and heritage engagement.
Dr Jack Hepworth
- Lecturer in Public History
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: jack.hepworth@ncl.ac.uk
- Jack Hepworth, Lecturer in Public History, leads public history modules and uses oral history to explore difficult histories, including armed conflict, with extensive publications.
Dr Ben Houston
- Senior Lecturer, Modern US History
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- 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.
Dr Hannah James Louwerse
- Associate Researcher
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: hannah.james-louwerse@newcastle.ac.uk
- Hannah’s Collaborative Doctoral Award looked at the maintenance of oral history archives and repositories, and how better maintenance will facilitate better reuse of oral history recordings.
Ally Keane
- Postgraduate Researcher
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: j.keane@ncl.ac.uk
- Ally Keane, appointed to a Northern Bridge Studentship, is writing a history of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and services, through the lens of user perspectives.
Professor Matt Perry
- Professor of Labour History
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: matt.perry@newcastle.ac.uk
- Matt Perry has research interests in British and French labour, memory and social history, particularly in the fields of protest, and currently leads oral history teaching at undergraduate.
Dr Joe Redmayne
- Leverhulme Fellow
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: j.redmayne2@newcastle.ac.uk
- Joe Redmayne is a British social and labour historian. His research deals with British social history in the twentieth century, focusing on transnationalism, and labour movements.
Dr Wendy Rickard
- Daphne Jackson Fellow
- School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: wendy.rickard@newcastle.ac.uk
- Dr Wendy Rickard, is the Collective's current Daphne Jackson Fellow undertaking the project, ‘Disrupted Narratives, Exposed Voices: A Global Analysis of HIV'
Professor Graham Smith
- Professor of Oral History
- History, Classics, and Archaeology
- Email: graham.smith@newcastle.ac.uk
- Graham is an internationally respected oral historian. He has worked in Vietnam, India China, Pakistan and the UK, in community and academic oral history.
Dr Claudia Soares
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
- School of History, Classics, and Archeaeology
- Email: claudia.soares@ncl.ac.uk
- Twitter: @claudiajsoares
- Claudia uses oral histories alongside other methodologies to rethink the role, meaning, and value of care in modern history.
Lily Tidman
- Postgraduate Researcher
- Lily Tidman, appointed to a Northern Bridge Studentship, is collecting oral histories of volunteering in hospitals in the 'far North' of England, 1979-1997.
Dr Kate Wilson
- Drop-in Convenor
- School of History, Classics, and Archeology
- Email: kate.wilson@ncl.ac.uk
- Kate is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain, currently working as a Research Associate on the Caring Communities: Rethinking Children’s Social Care project.