Katharine Burn

Associate Professor
 

Affiliation: Department of Education
Expert in: Migration narratives, representations, public opinion
Geographic focus: UK, US

Katharine is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Oxford Education Deanery: a multi-strand partnership with schools, focused on the development of teachers' research engagement through initial teacher education, early career professional learning and collaborative university/school research projects. Katharine taught history for ten years in state secondary schools in Oxford and retains a strong commitment to history education as Deputy President of the Historical Association and as co-editor of its professional journal, Teaching History. For the last ten years she has been responsible (with Rebecca Harris, of Reading University) for an annual survey of history teaching in England, conducted on behalf of the Historical Association. She is particularly passionate about ensuring history for all young people and about supporting teachers' continued engagement with historical scholarship.