Vice-President
Tom Woodin is a Professor of the Social History of Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society where he is a founding member of the International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE). His interests lie in nineteenth and twentieth century social and cultural history, particularly in learners and learning, co-operation and mutuality, and working class culture. His publications include The UCL Institute of Education, with Richard Aldrich (UCL Press, 2021); Working Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century: Literature, Culture and Community (Manchester University Press, 2018); editing Learning for a Co-operative World with Linda Shaw (UCL Press, 2019) as well as Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values (Routledge 2014). He led an ESRC funded project on the history of the school leaving age which resulted in a book, with Gary McCulloch and Steve Cowan, Secondary Education and the Raising of the School Leaving Age – Coming of Age? (Palgrave Macmillan 2013). Working with David Crook and Vincent Carpentier, he led another project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on the history of community and mutual ownership which resulted in an online publication: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/community-mutual-ownership. In 2007-8 he was the British Educational Research Association Brian Simon Fellow. He is the President of the History of Education Society, taking over from Jonathan Doney in November 2025. He was previously co-editor of History of Education with Susannah Wright and Mark Freeman and, from 2008-13, co-edited the History of Education Researcher with Susannah Wright.