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Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: L.M.MatthewsJones@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3907

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Lucie is a Reader in Victorian History at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research explores the role of home, gender and class in the British university and social settlement movement. She is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled 'Settling at Home: The Making of the British Settlement Movement, 1883-1920'. Her research has been published in leading journals including 'Victorian Studies', 'Journal of Victorian Culture', 'Women’s History', 'Cultural and Social History', and in the edited collection 'What is Masculinity? and A Cultural History of Home'. She also has a secondary interest in lived religion. She edited, with Timothy Jones (University of Melbourne), 'Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things' and has recently had a book chapter published on working-class religious practices in Jane Hamlett's edited book 'A Cultural History of Home'.

Lucie is a nationally recognized teaching practitioner. In 2021, she was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History following her 2018 her Vice-Chancellor teaching award for teaching innovation. She has an interest in creative practices and their application in the history higher education classroom and in assessment. With Cath Feely (University of Derby), she is running a range of workshop exploring 'Creative History in the Classroom' (September 2022-January 2023). Lucie currently teaches a third year nineteenth-century urban history module and a second year gender history module in the Victorian period. She is the module leader for the first-year skills module Making History. She also contributes to two first year survey modules Faces of Britain (L4) and Exploring History (L4). She supervises undergraduate dissertations and contributes to the MA in History. She is an external examiner at the University of Lincoln (2021-), following her completion of this role at Leeds Beckett (2018-2022)

She was the editor of the 'Journal of Victorian Culture' and managing editor of its online supplement JVC Online (www.victorianculture.com). She was co-convenor, with Dr Jamie Wood (Lincoln), of History UK.

She can be found on Twitter @luciejones83, where she tweets about teaching and learning, Victorian stuff and her cat Bella.

Degrees

2009, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, PhD

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