Dr Valerie Wright

Research Fellow

Dementia and Ageing 4S26, RG Bomont Building University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA

Contact details

Email valerie.wright@stir.ac.uk
Telephonec/o 7740

ORCID 0000-0002-4400-9272

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About me

Valerie is currently Research Fellow on the ESRC funded project 'Reimagining the Future in Older Age' based in Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling.

Previous experience:

Research Associate - 'Employment, politics and culture in Scotland, 1955-2015', Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow (Leverhulme Trust).
Lecturer - Modern Scottish History, Scottish History, University of Glasgow.
Research Associate - 'Housing, Everyday Life and Wellbeing over the long term: Glasgow 1950-1975' see this link, Urban Studies and History at the University of Glasgow (Leverhulme Trust).
Editorial Administrator - Gender & History see this link.
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant - 'Jute & Dundee: The Management of Industrial Decline', Economics and History at the University of Dundee on a project entitled (Leverhulme Trust).

She completed her PhD in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow see this link.

Valerie's background is as a historian of modern Britain with particular expertise in gender, social and political history.

Additional information

Valerie has appeared as an interviewee on a variety of documentaries:

'Growing Up in Scotland: A Century of Scottish Childhood', Episode 2 'Home', BBC TWO Scotland see this link.
'The Town that Thread Built', TVI Vision for BBC Scotland, BBC TWO Scotland (later shown on BBC4, BBC Scotland) see this link.
'Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle' , Velvet Joy productions and directed by Paul Sng (an edited version was later shown on Channel 5) see this link.
'Steelmen', Margot McCuaig (producer, writer and director), BBC Alba see this link
'Time Travels', Louise Yeoman (producer), BBC Radio Scotland see this link.
'The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank', TVI Vision for BBC Scotland, BBC TWO Scotland (later shown on BBC4, BBC Scotland) see this link.

Valerie currently serves on the steering committees of Women’s History Scotland (website coordinator), Scottish Labour History Society, the steering group of Scottish Critical Heritage and is an associate member of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow

Valerie has also participated in a School of Humanities project at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Education Scotland to create ‘Broad General Education’ learning resources to be used as part of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scottish schools. The resource ‘Homes in high places: Urban life in 20th century Glasgow’ is available here see this link.

Research

Valerie's current research focuses on exploring older adult's perceptions of future time and hopes and desires for the future.

Other research interests include:

The effects and legacy of the processes of deindustrialisation on communities and individuals in post-war Scotland
The changing structure of women’s employment in Britain in the post-war years
Women’s engagement in politics (broadly defined) and role in political change in twentieth century Britain
The long-term impact of the residualisation of council housing on the lack of affordable housing in the present day
Children’s use of urban space and the ways in which this was altered by urban planning in the post war years, especially with regards to play

Outputs

Article

Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland

Wright V, Kearns A, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland. Planning Perspectives, 34 (2), pp. 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2017.1393627

Article

Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives

Kearns A, Wright V, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives. Housing Studies, 34 (2), pp. 201-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1409342

Article

Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow

Abrams L, Fleming L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2019) Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 794-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472897

Article

'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats

Hazley B, Wright V, Abrams L & Kearns A (2019) 'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 728-745. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472890

Article

De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications

Tomlinson J, Phillips J & Wright V (2019) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications. Business History p. 27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235

Article

Deindustrialization, the Linwood Car Plant and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s

Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood Car Plant and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth Century British History, 30 (3), pp. 399-423. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz005

Article

Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s

Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2019) Being a ‘Clydesider’ in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History p. 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2019.1666973

Article

Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016

Abrams L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2018) Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016. Twentieth Century British History, 29 (4), pp. 576-604. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy006

Article

‘‘Tinkering at a local level’: Unemployment, State intervention and community agency in Ferguslie Park, Paisley c. 1972-1977’

Wright V (2018) ‘‘Tinkering at a local level’: Unemployment, State intervention and community agency in Ferguslie Park, Paisley c. 1972-1977’. Scottish Labour History, 53, pp. 192-211.

Article

'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day

Wright V (2018) 'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418780038

Teaching

Valerie has a wide and varied range of teaching experience from her previous roles including course coordination at undergraduate honours level and course contribution at postgraduate level. She also has experience of supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in History and Urban Studies.

Recent experience from the University of Glasgow includes:

Course co-ordination:

HIST4185 – Devolving the Nation: Scotland 1945-2004 (Honours Module – Scottish History)
HIST4173 – Victorian and Edwardian Glasgow (Honours Module – Scottish History)

Course contribution:

HIST5008 – Gender, Politics And Power (MSc in Gender History)
HIST4089 – Life Histories: Personal Testimony And Memory (Honours Module – Modern History)
HIST1008 – History 1A: Scotland’s Millennium: Kingdom, Union and Nation, c.1000-2014
SPS3003 – Researching the City: Developing an Urban Profile (Urban Studies - Visiting Students from University of Nankai)

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