Staff Profile:Dr Martin Parsons

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute of Education:

• PGCE/GTP History
• BAEd Humanities
• PhD Supervision

Teaching:

• PGCE/GTP History
• BAEd Humanities
• BA War Children (History)
• MA War Children (History)
• Dissertation supervisor (History)

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:

• War Child Studies
• Long-term child separation
• Use of Photographs and Film as historical documents
• Use of artefacts in the classroom

Current and recent Research Students:

• Pippa Bleach (PhD)
• Lindsey Dodd (PhD)
• Helga Lees (PhD)

Current and recent Research Projects:

• The Evacuation of Belfast
• The Establishment of war-time Camp Schools
• War Time Education

Research groups / Centres:

Director of the Centre for Evacuee and War Child Studies

Publications:

Recent publications/conference presentations/professional achievements:

Recent International Conferences Organised

• 2009. Children the Invisible Victims
• 2011. What did you do in the War, Child?

BOOKS - PUBLISHED since 2008

Parsons M. (ed) Children. The Invisible Victims of War. 356 pp. DSM Oct.2008 ISBN 0954722949

Parsons M. War Child. Children Caught in Conflict. 288 pages. History Press. Jan 08 ISBN 9780752442936

BOOKS in Preparation:-

Parsons M. Children in the eye of the Storm. DSM 2011

Parsons M. Summers J. Schools, Camps and Hostels. Education in World War 2. Harper Collins 2012

RECENT ARTICLES

Parsons M. Researching Evacuation. Family History Society. October 2010/November 2010

Parsons M. 'Why Bother!'. International Journal of Herkenning. Netherlands. October 2010

Parsons M. War Children and the Constitution. in Konstytucja Stanów Zjednoczonych Ameryki - reminiscencje w 220 rocznive uchwalenia: (The American Federal Constitution - reminiscences on the 220th anniversary) pub. Feb 2009 University of Łodz. pp57-63

Parsons M. Unschuldige Opfer - Die Not evakuierter Kinder in Europa im II. Weltkrieg

in: Der Krieg nach dem Krieg Spätfolgen bei traumatisierten Mensch. ed. Helga

Spranger. June 2007 pp89-99. ISBN 9-783833-479540

RECENT TELEVISION/RADIO PROGRAMMES

BBC4 & BBC2. The Lost Decade. Evacuees. Sept 2009

BBC Radio 2 Documentary Operation Pied Piper. Sept. 2009 (Nominated for Sony Award)

BBC Radio Wales. The Evacuation. Sept. 2009

BBC Somerset. The Evacuation. Aug .2009

LE Vision. Leipzig Germany. 'Kinderlandverschickung' (Series of 4 x 45min progs.) March 09

ITV/Leopard Films. Evacuees Reunited. (Series of 5x1 hour progs.) December 2008

BBC Wales. Evacuation. The Separation. December 2006

BBC4 & BBC2. The Lost Decade. Evacuees. Oct 2005/July 06/Sept 2009

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS.

• Fellow of the College of Preceptors
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Visiting Professor. University of Fort Hays, Kansas.
• Presented Annual Presidential Honour Lecture. 2006
• Visiting Professor. University of Lodz 2004/8/10
• Hon. Professor. University of Munich. Research Board. School of Psychiatry.
• University of Helsinki/Karolinska Institute: Chair of International Federation of War Child studies.

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• Children in War journal.....Editor.
• Leopard Films. Evacuees Reunited 5 x 1 hour progs
• LE Vision. Leipzig 'Kinderlandverschickung' 5 x 1 hour progs
• 'World War Two. Dialogue'. Oral History Project. State Universities of California and Texas.
• Clarity Productions. The Abuse of Evacuees.
• Leader of the English Speaking Union Research team investigating Evacuation to USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
• Chair of the WARCHILD Memorial Project.