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 was appointed to a Northern Bridge Studentship in October 2024 to produce 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.
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
- Lecturer in Public History
- School of History, Classics & 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.
Ally Keane
- Northern Bridge Studentship Recipient
- 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.
Dr Hannah James Louwerse
- Associate Researcher
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
- Email: h.james-louwerse2@newcastle.ac.uk
- Hannah’s Collaborative Doctoral Award looks at how we may wish to redesign the systems within oral history practice in order to encourage better reuse of oral history recordings.
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.
Wendy Rickard
- Daphne Jackson Fellow
- 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 & 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.
Lily Tidman
- Postgraduate Researcher
- 'Who cares? Health volunteering and political participation in the "far North" of England, 1979-1997' (funded by AHRC Northern Bridge).
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.