Phil Child

Ex Historia Postgraduate Symposium, University of Exeter

Paper presented: 'Acceptable Affluence: Labour Woman, domestic culture and modern living in the affluent society, 1950-64'

Urban History Workshop, University of Leeds

Paper presented: 'The Heights of Modernity?  The Urban Flat, Redevelopment and Progressive Politics, 1950-70'.

Housing Studies Association Annual Conference, University of York

Paper presented: '"Slums are a product of private landlordism": the Labour Party and the private rental market, 1950-70.'

Urban History Group Annual Conference 2014, University of Warwick

Paper presented: '"Why Let Landlords Get The Lot?" The Labour Party, urban landlords and managing housing inequality, 1950-70'.

College of Humanities PGR Conference 2013

Paper presented: 'Slum dwellings or period housing? The Political Culture of Slum Clearance in Cambridge, 1960-81'    

Ex Historia Postgraduate Symposium

Paper presented: 'Slum dwellings or period housing?  The Political Culture of Slum Clearance in Cambridge, 1960-81' 

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Stage 1)

• The nature of learning in Higher Education environments.
• I.L.Os. and their relationship to teaching, learning and assessment methods.
• Varied approaches to teaching methods and techniques.
• The uses of technology in teaching.

Understanding Government

Event intended to engage researchers with policy formulation, run by the AHRC at the Institute for Government.  Discussed ways and means of influencing policy, as well as identifying ways in which Arts and Humanities research can be applicable to broader situations or a wider audience.  Talks given by IfG researchers and academics, as well as staff from the IPPR, Foreign Office, HM Treasury and Guardian newspaper.