Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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.
Tutor for 'Britain and its Empire' module with Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education
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'.
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'.