Brunel University

Faculty Member, Politics and History

Other Affiliations: University of Oxford, History

Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History

About

My research interests centre on the cultural and intellectual history of Britain and its empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Specifically my work examines the social and institutional structures that underpinned the creation of knowledge in this period. My first book, "Universities and Empire: the British academic world and the landscapes of global connection, 1850-1939", will appear with Manchester University Press in 2013. My new projects focus on travel at sea and on 'global education' in the 1920s. 

A graduate of the University of Adelaide, I received my DPhil in 2009 from the University of Oxford where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously I was the Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New College, Lecturer at Corpus Christi College and convener of the Transnational and Global History Seminar at the University of Oxford. I have also worked in academic publishing and as an Aide and speech-writer for the Governor of Victoria.

I contribute regularly to the Guardian’s Higher Education Network  www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tamson-pietsch and I blog about academics, universities and the history of the knowledge economy at Cap and Gown: http://capandgown.wordpress.com.
You can also find me on twitter: http://twitter.com/cap_and_gown

In 2012 I was awarded an ARC DECRA (Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) to undertake a three year project on the origins of the knowledge economy. It will examine the ways the new global connections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries helped create international spaces of intellectual production and exchange.

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