ANDREW DAVID BURCHELL ----- CURRICULUM VITÆ
Date of birth: 25 August 1992
E-mail: a.d.burchell@warwick.ac.uk
EDUCATION PROFILE
2015-present – PhD candidate, Department of History and Centre for the History of Medicine,
University of Warwick, supported by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship (ref:
WT108600AIA).
2014-2015 – MA, History of Medicine (Distinction), University of Warwick, with the support of
a Wellcome Trust Master’s Award (ref: WT105321MA). Dissertation title: ‘An “educational” or
“parental” relationship: psycho-pathology, pedagogy and corporal punishment in English
schools, c.1945-1986’. Winner of the Warwick History Departmental Prize for the Best MA
Dissertation, 2015.
2010-2014 – BA, French and History (First Class), University of Warwick.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Supervised by Professor Mathew Thomson, my PhD project – under the provisional title
of ‘Violence, Mental Health and the British School Child: from theory to practice in an
era of war, peace and social change, c.1944-1980’ – examines the intersections between
the psychological and pedagogical through the prism of responses to violence. It explores
how teaching unions, commentators and psychologists both accounted for and explained
youth violence in educational settings during the mid-century period, whilst also attempting
to situate these responses in the context of the mutual influences and incomprehensions
besetting the diverse groups of professionals and experts involved.
More information on my project, together with details about my previous research into
corporal punishment, can be found on my e-portfolio hosted on the Warwick History
Department’s webapges.
PRESENTING EXPERIENCE
May 2015 – History Department Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, ‘Parental
rights, mental health and “neurotic” children: the end of corporal punishment in British schools’.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
October 2015 – I ran a session for MA students enrolled on the core ‘Quantitative Research
Skills (IT and Historical Research)’ module; outlining the assessment procedures, discussing
my own experience of producing a quantitative project, and offering advice on the challenges
involved in undertaking the sort of numerical research required by this strand.
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October 2012-April 2013 – British Council English Language Assistant (secondary school and
college), Lycée Polyvalent André Honnorat (1 rue Honnorat, 04400 BARCELONNETTE,
France).
Summer 2012 – Research project under the aegis of the Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Scheme at the Modern Records Centre (University of Warwick). Working with another student, I
helped in the preparation of an on-line exhibition about the life and work of the Labour politician
Richard Crossman (1907-1974), and contributed introductory essays on his philosophy, his
(personal and academic) connections to Germany, and his role in the development of
‘psychological warfare’. The fruits of this research are currently available at:
https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/crossman/urss/
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2015-2016 – Co-convenor of the Centre for the History of Medicine’s Reading Lunch series: an
opportunity for postgraduate students to discuss themed readings alongside light refreshment.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English
French
Native speaker (C2)
University-level study (roughly equivalent to C1)
REFEREES
Professor Mathew Thomson
Department of History
Humanities Building
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
Dr Roberta Bivins
Department of History
Humanities Building
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
m.thomson@warwick.ac.uk
r.bivins@warwick.ac.uk
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