Dr Stephanie Spencer 

Head of Department - Education Studies                                  Reader in History of Women's Education 

Education, Health and Social Care 

Email:

stephanie.spencer@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827125 

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Expertise

Stephanie's main research expertise is within historical educational research. She has completed both documentary and oral history research projects. Her research uses feminist and gender frameworks in order to consider both formal and informal experiences of education. She is convenor of the Centre for the History of Women's Education at the University of Winchester. She is an active member of Women's History Network

Publications

 ‘Travelling across national, paradigmatic and archival divides: new work for the historian of education’ Guest editorial, History of Education, 38, 6, 2009, with Tim Allender

'Knowledge as the Necessary Food of the Mind’: Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy of Education, in J. Spence, S.J. Aiston & M. Meikle (eds)Women, Education and Agency (London: Routledge, 2009)

‘Girls at risk. Early school-leaving and early marriage in the 1950s’ Journal of Educational Administration and History, 41 (2) 2009

A Uniform Identity: schoolgirl snapshots and the spoken visual, History of Education, 36 (2) 2007

Gender Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Schoolgirl to Career Girl: the City as educative space, Paedagogica Historica, 39, 1-2, 2003 reprinted in 2005 RoutledgeFalmerReader in History of Education, (ed. Gary McCulloch)

Reflections on the ‘Site of Struggle’: girls experience of secondary education in the later 1950s, History of Education, 33 (4) 2004

The Lady Visitors at Queen's College: from the back of the class to a seat on the council, Journal of Educational Administration and History, 36 (1) 2004

Advice and Ambition in a Girls’ Public Day School: The Case of Sutton High School, 1884-1924, Women’s History Review (March 2000)

Research Interests

Stephanie's research interests focus around the experience of formal and informal education for teenage girls and young women from the end of the nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. Current projects include the Alumni Voices project at the University of Winchester, the work of educationalist Charlotte Mason, and the transnational identities in UK and US teenage school and college fiction 1910-1960.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Funded projects:

Co-convenor of current ESRC seminar series Women in Britain in the 1950s with Penny Tinkler (University of Manchester) and Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex)

'Alumni Voices' (University of Winchester Research and Knowledge Exchange Grant)

'Teaching History to Non-Specialist students’ HE Academy award

Nuffield Foundation funded project
1)Elizabeth Nuffield Educational Fund-Five Year Review Survey
2)Elizabeth Nuffield Educational Fund archive project

Editorial Boards:
History of Education
Women’s History Review
Journal of Educational Administration and History

• Secretary History of Education Society (UK)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society