Dr Alix Green

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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872304
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Location
5NW.7.7, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Spring 2020 Academic support hours: Wednesdays 9.30-10.30 Zoom ID 972 6086 0314 Thursdays 2.30-3.30 Zoom ID 989 2837 4599
Profile
Biography
I moved into academia after a career in policy, strategy and government affairs. I did my PhD on using history in public policy development, having completed my BA and MPhil degrees in History at Clare College, Cambridge. I am a historian of contemporary Britain and I teach and supervise on a range of topics in 20th/21st-century British history and public history. My research focuses on political culture, government and policymaking. I also have a long-standing interest in historical practice and the roles and responsibilities of historians in public life, taking contemporary politics, policymaking and business as underexplored contexts for historical work. My recent book, 'History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government' draws on notions of public scholarship, expertise and the nature of historical thinking. My work aims to blur the boundaries between disciplines and to emphasise the complementarity of different forms of knowledge, so I'm interested in co-production and co-design as approaches to research. These interests are reflected in a long-standing collaboration with the John Lewis Partnership Heritage Centre. Our latest co-designed project has focused on the Partnership's historical approach to pay and performance to inform how the business approaches these strategies in the future. From this ongoing collaboration, the Centre's manager and I have been working with a new network of business archivists to develop models of collaboration between historians and archivists that demonstrate the value of archival collections and historical research to parent organisations. Outputs from this project have been co-written guidance for business archives on collaboration with academics and an accompanying series of short films. I founded the Public History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London and I served as a juror for the new national Public History prize. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and I am currently serving as one of the Society's two Honorary Directors of Communications. Joining the Essex History department in 2016 was a second return to my home town of Colchester.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Hertfordshire,
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MPhil University of Cambridge,
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BA (Hons) University of Cambridge,
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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The Making of the Modern World since 1750 (HR100)
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Approaches to History (HR211)
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Public History Module: Sharing the Secrets of Colchester Castle Museum (HR222)
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Choosing Your Past: How to Design and Manage a Research Project (HR231)
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History Works: Career Portfolio (HR510)
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Unquiet pasts: controversies of twentieth-century Britain (HR651)
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Placement Year (HR701)
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Research Project (HR831)
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The Public History Workshop (HR921)
Current supervision
Previous supervision

Degree subject: History
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/5/2020
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Green, AR. and Lee, E., (2020). From transaction to collaboration: redefining the academic-archivist relationship in business collections. Archives and Records. 41 (1), 32-51
Green, A., (2019). 'Secret lists and sanctions': the blacklisting of the John Lewis Partnership and the politics of pay in 1970s Britain. Twentieth Century British History. 30 (2), 205-230
Green, AR., (2018). From Cultural Case Studies to Global Conversations: Towards an Interconnected Community of Enquiry in Public History. The Public Historian. 40 (4), 56-60
Green, A., (2015). History as Expertise and the Influence of Political Culture on Advice for Policy Since Fulton. Contemporary British History. 29 (1), 27-50
Green, A., (2012). Continuity, contingency and context: Bringing the historian's cognitive toolkit into university futures and public policy development. Futures. 44 (2), 174-180
Books (1)
Green, AR., (2016). History, Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-1-137-52085-2
Book chapters (1)
(2018). Professional Identity and the Public Purposes of History. In: Public History and School. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 175- 186. 9783110463682
Conferences (1)
Green, A., Commentary: professional identity and the public purposes of history
Grants and funding
2021
Warner Textile Archive: Digital Engagement Strategy and Implementation Framework
Braintree District Museum
2020
Covid-19, social action and our local neighbourhood � Research in Colchester
Community360
ERO Marconi Archive - Exploring user engagement utilising digital technology
ESSEX RECORDS OFFICE
2018
Pay and the Partnership Difference: using the past to shaped the present in John Lewis
University of Essex
Contact
Academic support hours:
Spring 2020 Academic support hours: Wednesdays 9.30-10.30 Zoom ID 972 6086 0314 Thursdays 2.30-3.30 Zoom ID 989 2837 4599