Graduate Student, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (SAHC)
Thesis Title: Neither Waif Nor Stray: Agency, Authority and Institutional Care in the Waifs and Strays Society, 1881-1914
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Julie-Marie Strange
Michael Sanders |
About
claudia.soares@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
I graduated with a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Art History and Visual Culture from the University of Manchester in 2007, before gaining a distinction for my MA in Victorian History at the University of Manchester in 2010.
I am currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Manchester, in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, supervised by Dr. Julie-Marie Strange. My thesis re-evaluates the cultures of child welfare in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, focussing on the Waifs and Strays Society (now The Children's Society). In 2011, I was a tutor for a 2nd level undergraduate social history course on identity at the University of Manchester.
In 2010 I presented my research at the Postgraduate seminar at the University of Manchester, and in 2011, at the Voluntary Action History Society PG seminar, St Deiniol's PG conference and the North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar Series, run by the University of Salford. In 2012, I have presented my work at the University of Greenwich at the Rethinking Childhood Conference, 14th January 2012, the Voluntary Action History Society Workshop, March 2012, and the Social History Society Conference, 3-5th April.
My next presentations will take place at the History Lab Annual Conference on Agency, 13-14th June 2012 at the IHR and the Disability and the Victorians Conference at Leeds Trinity University, 30th July-1st August 2012.
