Meet the Team

Patrick Alexander is Reader and Research Lead and Director of the Centre of Educational Consultancy and Development in the School of Education, Oxford Brookes University. Patrick's research interests lie at the intersection of education, anthropology, and youth studies, focusing on the sociology of schooling and youth transitions.

David Aldridge is Reader and Director of Research in the Department of Education at Brunel University London. His research interests include philosophy of education, religious and moral education, and the relation between literature and education.

Annie Haight is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University. Her research interests centre on the sociology and philosophy of education, and the ways in which debates in the sphere of education reflect and illuminate aspects of wider culture and society.

Susannah Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies in the School of Education, Oxford Brookes University, Her key research interests and publications focus on moral education and citizenship, and local studies of education and welfare in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. In addition to the research on remembrance in schools represented here, other current research projects focus on young people, commemoration, and engagement with internationalism and pacifism from the 1920s to the 1960s.