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Matt Houlbrook

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  • Professor of Cultural History, History

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I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire in the twentieth century (Phoebe Gill), crimes of passion and the making of modern heterosexuality (Jacob Fredrickson), Lesbian SM in the 1980s and 1990s (Bethan Downs), the embodied experience of pregnancy (Sydni Zastre), the R101 airship disaster and British culture in the 1930s (Jonny Allard), the League of Nations Union in Cheltenham (Adrian Courtney), and the military use of photography during the Great War (Nicole Chiccarelli).

I have been Head of Postgraduate Studies for the School of History and Cultures (and done similar roles in Oxford and Liverpool in the past). I am committed to ensuring the highest quality in PGR supervision and professional development. In 2017 I received the University of Birmingham Graduate School Award for Excellence in Doctoral Researcher Supervision for the College of Arts and Law, after being nominated by some of the scholars I was lucky enough to work with.

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