Iain Johnston

Education Advisor at University of Groningen

Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

About

Iain Johnston is an Education Advisor with the Educational Support and Innovation (ESI) team at the University of Groningen. He specialises in inclusive education and course design. He is also a Historian of Modern Britain, specialising in empire and war in the twentieth century. His current research explores changes that occurred in colonial port cities during the Second World War and he teaches on the British Empire for the University of Oxford. He is also part of a global team of scholars researching trophy photographs in the Second World War. Iain recently published two co-edited volumes. The first provides a platform for new voices and perspectives on the "British World" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second is the outcome of an oral history project on the Korean War undertaken with history students at the University of Roehampton, the National Army Museum (UK), and the British Korean Society.

Experience

  • Education Advisor & Inclusive Educationalist at University of Groningen
    Oct 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

  • Tutor at University of Oxford
    Jul 2015 - Present · 11 yrs

    Tutor for 'Britain and its Empire' module with Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education

  • University of Roehampton (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Lecturer in British History
      Aug 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Lecturer in British History
      May 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Iain Johnston-White was Lecturer in British History, with research focussing on the intersection of European empires and war in the twentieth century. He has published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History and Global War Studies. Most recently, he published the manuscript 'The British Commonwealth and Victory in the Second World War', in the Palgrave Macmillan series Studies in Military and Strategic History. His teaching responsibilities at Roehampton University currently include 'Modern British and European History', 'London: Art, History and Society' and, at Master's level, 'Applied Historical Research'.

  • Lecturer at Aberystwyth University
    Jul 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Iain Johnston-White held the position of Lecturer in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. His teaching responsibilities included undergraduate modules 'Wars of Empire: From Settlement to Decolonisation'; 'Intelligence in the Age of Extremes'; 'The Cuban Missile Crisis' and 'Warfare in the Twentieth Century'. He was co-covenor of the 'Crisis Games', an international crisis simulation for undergraduate students. At Master's level, courses included 'Intelligence, Security and International Politics, 1900-45'; 'Thoughts of War'; and 'Contemporary Strategic Problems'.

  • Sciences Po (Paris Area, France)
    • Visiting Researcher
      May 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2014 - Jun 2014 · 6 mos