Colin
Lees
Programme Director
Lecturer, Language, Learning and Literacy Research group
Qualifications/Education:
Ph.D. (University of Manchester), M.A. (University
of Keele), B.A, (Manchester Polytechnic) Advanced Diploma in Management
Studies (University of Salford), PGCE (University of Manchester).
Main Research Areas:
Early history of Manchester University; YMCA history; eugenics and
the history of disability through images; Victorian disability charity
images.
Research publications:
I am a research active member of the Language and Literacy research
grouping in the Faculty
RAE 2001 – publications
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(sole author) Mind, Body, Spirit: A History
of the Manchester YMCA (London: The National Council of
YMCAs, 1996)0 948 185 09 0
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Series of articles (with Alex Robertson) on
aspects of the early history of the University of Manchester
as a lead in to the 150th anniversary in 2001 of
the founding of the university. The series of articles appears
in the Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of
Manchester from 1996 to 2000 at the rate of one per year.
The articles have been commissioned by the
editor of the Bulletin, Dr Dorothy Clayton. Alex and
I will be co-writing and co-editing a special edition of the
Bulletin in 2001 entitled The University in its Community:
1851-1939
"Owens College, A.J. Scott and the struggle against
‘prodigious antagonistic forces’", Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 1996,
pp 155-172. ISSN 0301 102X
1997 "Early Students and the ‘University of the Busy’: the Quay
Street years of Owens College, 1851-1870”, Volume 79, Number 1,
Spring 1987, pp. 161-194 ISSN 0301 102X
1998 "Community access to Owens College: a neglected aspect of university
history", Volume 80 Number 1, Spring 1998, pp.125-152. ISSN 0301
102X 1999 "Manchester University and the City: Aspects of Policy
Making in Higher Education 1900-1930", Volume 81, Number 1, Spring
1999, pp. 85-109. ISSN 0301 102X
2000 "Characteristics of Professional Life in the First of the Civic
Universities, 1851-1918", Volume 82, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp.
225-250. ISSN 030 1028
2001 Introductory Chapter in E. Rowley The University at War, 1939
–46. Manchester: Manchester University, 2001. (in press)
Non RAE publications
(with Peter Pumrey, Lynn Jones and Sue Millar)
Form and Style in writing dissertations and theses (Manchester:
University of Manchester, Faculty of Education 1997, third edition)
220 pp. ISBN 0 902252 60 7
1998 (with E Rowley, Faculty of Economics and
Social Studies) Sparkhill Commercial School Roll of Honour 1939-1945
(Birmingham: Old Dolphins’ Association, 1998) 28pp.ISBN 0 902252
61 5
1999 (with E Rowley) Sparkhill Commercial School:
Cyril Henry Toy with Dora Alice Wilson (Birmingham: Old Dolphins
Association, 1999), 32pp.SBN 0 902252 63 1 |
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