Dr Claudia Soares
Historian and author
Curriculum vitae
Current position
Previous position
NUAcT Fellow, History Department, Newcastle University, 2022-2027
I will work on new projects at Newcastle including a long history of fostering and adoption and a history of 20th century children's care experiences and outcomes.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Newcastle University, 2022-2023
I will continue to work on my project In Care and After Care at Newcastle, which will be completed in late-2023.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen Mary University of London, 2017- 2021
Project: In Care and After Care: Emotions, Institutions, and Welfare in Britain, Australia, and Canada, 1830-1930.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
HISTORIES OF FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD
HISTORY OF EMOTIONS
POVERTY AND WELFARE
EMPIRE, RACE AND MIGRATION
TEACHING
Education
The University of Manchester
2015 - PhD in History
Thesis: Neither Waif Nor Stray: Home, Family, and Belonging in the Victorian Children's Institution
The University of Manchester
2008-2010 - Distinction in MA Victorian History.
The University of Manchester
2004-2007 - BA (Hons) in Art History and Visual Culture.
Publications
Monograph
A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain - under contract with Oxford University Press
Articles
'"The many lessons which the care of some gentle, loveable animal would give": animals and pet keeping in children's residential welfare institutions, 1850-1920', The History of the Family 26, (2021), pp. 236-265.
'Leaving the Victorian Children’s Institution: Aftercare, Friendship and Support’, History Workshop Journal 87 (2019), pp. 97-119.
‘Homeliness and authority in the Victorian children’s institution’, Journal of Victorian Culture 23, 1 (2018), pp. 1-24.
‘Care and trauma: exhibiting histories of philanthropic childcare practices’, Journal of Historical Geography 52, 2 (2016), pp. 100-107.
‘The Path to Reform? Problematic treatments and patient experience in nineteenth-century female inebriate institutions’, Cultural and Social History 12, 3 (2015) pp. 411-429.
Book Chapter
'"The ideal life for a child": family, identity, and memory for children in care, 1850-1930' in Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain edited by Sian Pooley and Jonathan Taylor (London: University of London Press, 2021), pp. 73-99.
I have comprehensive experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules across disciplinary areas and subjects, including:
Histories/Historical Geographies of Childhood and Youth, Modern British History, Heritage Studies, Human Geography.
I also have experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research/independent studies.
I am currently completing my HEA Fellowship.
Awards, grants and prizes
NUAcT Fellowship, Newcastle University, 2022-2027: c. £300,000 incuding five year salary costs, £50,000 research expenses, and additional funding for a three-year PhD student.
The British Academy, 2017-2023: Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship £239,186.40 and further 10 months’ funding from UK Government (Department of BEIS) and The British Academy.
The Leverhulme Trust, 2017: Early Career Fellowship - Awarded postdoctoral fellowship but not taken up.
The British Academy/Queen Mary University of London, 2018: Awarded £1,000 for public engagement event held at The Ragged School Museum as part of the Being Human Festival.
The Children's History Society, 2017: Winner of the best conference paper abstract at the society's international conference at the University of Greenwich.
The Wellcome Trust, 2016: Awarded £10,000 for research project on the wellbeing of children in the Victorian children’s welfare institution.
Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2010-2013: Awarded £51,796 for Doctoral studentship (fees and maintenance).
Royal Historical Society, 2012: Awarded research grant of £450 to attend the North American Conference on British Studies, Canada.
‘New Researcher prize’, The Centre for Giving and Philanthropy, Cass University, 2013: Awarded £200 at the Voluntary Action History Society’s fifth international conference.