About the Office of Arts Education
Dr Laura Brassington is the inaugural Director of the OAE. Laura received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science (2022), before which she completed her MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine also at the University of Cambridge, and her MA in Modern History and International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
Prior to joining McGill in August 2023, Laura held a Visiting Lectureship at King’s College London in the Centre for Research in Education in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, where she taught on the Master’s in STEM Education. She has also worked at Universities UK (London) with portfolios on research and innovation and quality and value in higher education, and at the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI, Oxford).
When she’s not at OAE, Laura is working on her first monograph exploring the co-construction of science and status in Charles Darwin’s correspondence.
Select Publications
Brassington L. (ed.), The Past, Present and Future of Research Assessment, Higher Education Policy Institute Report 152, 1 September 2022.
Brassington, L., Gypsies, Roma and Travellers: The ethnic minorities most excluded from UK education, Higher Education Policy Institute Report 151, June 2022.
Gardner, V. and Brassington, L., Why Open Access Is Not Enough: Spreading the benefits of research, HEPI Policy Note (December 2022).
Brassington, L., The Future of Digital Learning Experiences: Students’ expectations vs. reality, HEPI Policy Note (December 2022).
Brassington, L. ‘Liz Truss must avoid populism and plan for the long term’, Times Higher Education, 7 September 2022.
Brassington, L., ‘The “janitor-geologist” and the “cold materialistic scientific men”: James Croll’s navigation of scientific societies’, Special Issue of Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Spring 2021, pp. 1-12.