Georgina Brewis

Dr Georgina Brewis is a historian of youth, education and voluntary action. She is Senior Lecturer in the History of Education at UCL Institute of Education, where she teaches on history courses across UCL. Her book A Social History of Student Volunteering takes a long view of the university experience by exploring extra-curricular volunteering, campaigning and protest in Britain and beyond 1880-1980. Georgina Brewis is currently researching voluntary famine relief in Ethiopia in the 1980s as part of a wider study of the roots of global civil society, as well as working on a new history of international volunteering. Her PhD (2009) explored how the imperial experience shaped patterns of charitable giving and voluntary service in Britain and India, with a focus on young people's social service and education. In 2011-2012 she was research assistant at the Institute of Education, working on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project 'Social Change and English 1945-65' which resulted in the book English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy.