Oliver Mumford

Oliver Mumford is a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship PhD candidate at Liverpool Hope University and the History of Education Society UK Ruth Watts Fellow. His research interests focus upon higher education, and its relationship with colonial history. His PhD research is titled 'Imperial Hopes? The founding colleges of Liverpool Hope University and the colonial past, c.1920-1980’. The research examines the colonial histories of religious teacher training colleges, and considers the ways in which these institutions were shaped and contributed to shaping the (post)colonial world.
Oliver has curated an exhibition at the Sheppard-Worlock Library and delivered public lectures drawing on his research. Oliver was awarded his BA and MA from Newcastle University and has undertaken funded research projects in Europe and South Africa.