Professional and Teaching Expertise

Alison is the Head of the Secondary Teacher Education and an English specialist. She has a range of experience teaching English, both in the UK and abroad, across a wide age range from primary through to undergraduates. Alison also supervises students on the MA in Professional Education.

Alison holds a Master’s degree and PhD in English literature, with her specialised field being the study of Romanticism. Her teaching specialisms are in the pedagogy of English and sociopolitical theories of education, with a particular focus on critical pedagogy and anti-racist pedagogies. Alison is also a member of the editorial board for International Journal of Innovation in Education and is a reviewer for the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study journal, Exchanges and the Folk Music Journal.

 Publications and Projects

• ‘“Rise from Your Slumber”: Ballads and Songs of Peterloo’, The Keats-Shelley Review, (2021).
• ‘“Britain Now Your Voices Join”: The Legacy of Peterloo in Song’, Romanticism on the Net, (2021).
• ‘“Song of the Slaughter”: The Music and Poetry of Peterloo’, Old Songs, New Discoveries: Selected Papers from the 2018 Folk Song Conference, The Ballad Partners (2019), ed. Steve Roud and David Atkinson.
• ‘From Pantomime to Peterloo: “Hearts of Oak” and the Contest for Englishness in Songs of Protest’, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (2019).
• Ballads and Songs of Peterloo, Manchester University Press (2018)
• ‘“Let No Man Write My Epitaph”: The Contributions of Percy Shelley, Thomas Moore and Robert Southey in the Memorialisation of Robert Emmet, Irish Studies Review (2014)
• ‘“God Save Our Queen!” Percy Bysshe Shelley and Radical Appropriations of the British National Anthem’, Romanticism (2014)
• ‘Starving Mothers and Murdered Children in Cultural Representations of Peterloo’, Manchester Region History Review (2014)

 Conference and Seminar Papers

• Research in Action Conference, University of Warwick, December 2020, 2021 & 2022
• Inclusion Conference, University of Warwick, January 2021, 2022 & 2023
• Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture Conference, University of Newcastle, July, 2022
• Luddite Memorial Lecture, University of Huddersfield, April 2022
• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, Rochester, New York, March, 2022
• Radical Roundtables, webinar, January, 2022.
• Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers Annual Conference, Stratford, November 2019
• International Conference on Romanticism, Manchester, August 2019
• British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, University of Nottingham, July 2019
• Peterloo at 200 Conference, Rome, July 2019
• University of Warwick Education Conference, May 2019
• Society for the Study of Labour History Conference, Manchester, May 2019
• Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar, University of York, March 2019
• Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre Workshop, University of Warwick, December 2018
• European History Research Centre Seminar, Warwick, November 2018
• Folk Song Conference, English Folk, Dance and Song Society, London, November 2018
• British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, University of York, July 2017
• Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers Annual Conference, Birmingham, November 2016
• British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, University of Southampton, July 2013
• Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, University of Salford, July 2013
• Emblems of Nationhood International Conference, University of St. Andrews, August 2012
• BARS Postgraduate and Early Careers Conference, Newcastle University, June 2012
• British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) International Conference, Glasgow University, July 2011
• Postgraduate Symposium at Keele University May 2011 and May 2012
• North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar, Portico Library Manchester, June 2010