Malcolm Dick has lectured at the School of Education since 2005 and the Centre for Lifelong Learning since 2004 where he teaches on undergraduate history and professional development programmes. Malcolm is also Programme Co-ordinator for the BA (Hons) Degree in History, Heritage, Education, Co-ordinator for the University’s Day and Summer School courses and Project Manager for the Joseph Priestley and Birmingham Project (Heritage Lottery Fund). He also worked on the Skills in the Community Outreach Resource Project (European Social Fund) between 2004 and 2005.

Manager of the Revolutionary Players Digitisation Project (New Opportunities Fund) between 2002 and 2004. This was a digitisation project which created a website on Midlands history during the Industrial Revolution (www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk).

Editor and then Director of the Millennibrum Project (Millennium Commission) from 2000-2002 which created a multi-media archive of Birmingham history for Birmingham Libraries and Museums and Art Gallery.

Co-ordinator for the Black Country Partnership for Learning Widening Participation Project (Learning and Skills Council) between 1999 and 2000.

Until 2000 he worked in schools and further education. His last major responsibilities were as Head of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of Lifelong Learning at Rowley Regis College.

Research and Projects Interests

How education shapes identity; the origins of mass schooling; education and Enlightenment thought and activity
Industrial, social and environmental history of Birmingham and the West Midlands since 1700
Birmingham as a multi-cultural town and city
The Lunar Society and the Midlands Enlightenment in the late eighteenth century

Teaching Interests

School of Education

Britain and the World since 1770 (Level 1)
Explorations in British Environmental History (Level 2)
Case Studies in Empire: India and Africa 1867-1964 (Level 2)
Empires of Nature: Themes and Approaches in Imperial Environmental History (Level 3)
Level 3 Dissertations

Centre for Lifelong Learning

Britain and Birmingham: Society, Culture and Institutions (Level 0 for International Foundation Programme
Town and Country in the West Midlands 1700-1900 (Level 2)
The Making of Modern Birmingham: A Study in Cultural Diversity (Levels 2 and 3)
Birmingham and the Midlands in an International Context (Level 3)
The Lunar Society: Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands 1765-1809 (level 3)
I also contribute to three (Level 3) modules, Government and Public Institutions, Research Methods and Managing Through Projects for the BPhil degree in Professional Development.
Level 3 dissertations

Publications [pdf]