Susannah Wright
Dr Susannah Wright is an Associate Professor in History of Education and Childhood in the School of Education, Humanities and Languages at Oxford Brookes University. She joined as Research Fellow in 2007, before becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2009. Susannah is a Postgraduate Research Tutor for Education, teaches on the MA Education and supervises research students working towards their MPhil/PhD and EdD.
Dr Wright's key research and teaching interests relate to the history of education and childhood, with a focus on themes of secularism, and war and peace. From 2014-2019 Susannah was one of three editors of a peer-reviewed journal, History of Education, and was appointed Hon. Secretary of the History of Education Society (UK) in 2020. Her monographs are Morality and Citizenship in English Schools: Secular Approaches, 1897-1944 (Palgrave, 2016) and Youth and Peace in England, 1919-1969 (Palgrave, 2025)