Dr Isabelle Carter MA, PhD, FHEA Department of HistoryAssistant Professor in Modern British History Contact details Emaili.carter.1@bham.ac.uk View my research portal AddressArts BuildingUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK I am an oral historian of modern Britain, with particular interests in the lived experience of place-based and welfare inequalities in the late twentieth century. Open all sections Qualifications PhD in History, University of Sheffield, 2021 MA in Historical Research, University of Sheffield, 2017 BA (Hons) in History, University of Leicester, 2016 Teaching I teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes at the University of Birmingham. These include: Practising History: Skills in History Public History Critical Histories of the Present Britain and Her Soldiers: Society and the Army from the First World War to Afghanistan Global Cold War The Making of the Contemporary World: Modern History c. 1800 to the Present Publications Recent publications Article Carter, I 2025, 'Navigating ethics and precarity: an early career perspective of oral history in UK higher education', Oral History, vol. 53, no. 1. <https://www.ohs.org.uk/scripts/journal-search.php?parameter=issue&searchkey=112#listing1619> Carter, I & Ellis, H 2024, 'Control, resistance and the senses: Including neurodivergent perspectives within an oral history of the UK School Meals Service', Oral History Review. Carter, I 2023, 'Youth, race and the inner-city estate: narratives of everyday life in Manchester's Hulme, 1970-1994', Urban History, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 248-263. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926821000754 Book/Film/Article review Carter, I 2024, 'Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos By Aidan Beatty: Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos By Aidan Beatty. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2023, 335pp. ISBN 9781526165701, £85.00.', Modern British History, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 377–379. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwad064 Other contribution Carter, I, Craig-Atkins, E & Crichton-Turley, C-E 2024, Embedding Community Voices in Local Heritage: Insights from Roots and Futures, AHRC Place Programme Policy Brief. University of Glasgow. <https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1058430_smxx.pdf> Review article Carter, I 2019, 'Review of Stefan Ramsden, Working-Class Community in the Age of Affluence', Contemporary British History, vol. 33, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2019.1603106 View all publications in research portal