Gavin Schaffer

Colleges, School and Institutes

Willingness to take PhD students

Yes

PhD projects

Professor Schaffer is keen to offer supervision in the following areas:

Racial science and eugenics; race relations
British immigration histories
Social history of the Second World War
Modern Jewish history

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Most downloaded publications

Fighting Thatcher with comedy: What to do when there is no alternative
Gavin Schaffer, 11 Mar 2016, In: Journal of British Studies. 55, 2, p. 374-397 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

425 downloads
Zionism, Aliyah, and the Jews of Glasgow: belonging and believing in postwar Britain
Gavin Schaffer, 31 Dec 2019, In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 37, 3, p. 267-294 28 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

161 downloads
The White Essential Subject: Race, Ethnicity, and the Irish in Postwar Britain
Gavin Schaffer, 2018, In: Contemporary British History. 32, 2, p. 209-230

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

135 downloads
The Poetics of Narrativity: Understanding Trauma, Temporality and Spatiality 40 years after the Birmingham Pub Bombings
Gavin Schaffer, 10 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Social History. shz004.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

59 downloads
The limits of the ‘Liberal imagination’: Britain, broadcasting, and apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994
Gavin Schaffer, Aug 2018, In: Past & Present. 240, 1, p. 235–266

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

32 downloads

Recent publications

Zionism, Aliyah, and the Jews of Glasgow: belonging and believing in postwar Britain
Gavin Schaffer, 31 Dec 2019, In: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 37, 3, p. 267-294 28 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Poetics of Narrativity: Understanding Trauma, Temporality and Spatiality 40 years after the Birmingham Pub Bombings
Gavin Schaffer, 10 Apr 2019, In: Journal of Social History. shz004.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The limits of the ‘Liberal imagination’: Britain, broadcasting, and apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994
Gavin Schaffer, Aug 2018, In: Past & Present. 240, 1, p. 235–266

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Recent Activities

SEVENTY YEARS ON

Kevin Myers (Invited speaker), Gavin Schaffer (Organiser), Michell Chresfield (Chair), Sadiah Qureshi (Invited speaker), (Invited speaker) & (Invited speaker)

20 Jun 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Community engagement event

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