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Dr Alistair Beecher
Member of Common Room
Co-Director, Graduate School and Departmental Lecturer
Department for Continuing Education
DPhil, MSc (Oxon), BSc (Southampton)
Alistair Beecher is a Departmental Lecturer and a Co-Director of the Graduate School at the Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and a Common Room Member at Kellogg College. He is also an alumnus of Kellogg and Harris Manchester colleges.
After retiring from a 30-year career as a chartered accountant, Alistair was a student in the OUDCE from 2010 to 2017 studying for a Postgraduate Certificate in Historical Studies, an MSc in English Local History (Kellogg) and a DPhil in English Local History (Harris Manchester). Following completion, he joined the part-time tutor panel and became a Departmental Lecturer in November 2019. His role is primarily now focused on the Graduate School and the design and delivery of a broad skills and development training programme for all the department’s postgraduate students, but he also teaches history and convenes various seminar programmes. Alistair’s undergraduate degree was in Accounting & Statistics from the University of Southampton, and he is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Teaching
Alistair contributes to a broad range of history programmes offered by the OUDCE including weekly classes, day schools, open days, the Foundation Certificate in History, the Diploma in Local and Social History and the Postgraduate Certificate and MSt in Historical Studies. He also convenes the Doctoral Research Seminars each term at the department.
Research Interests
Alistair’s research interests are in religious and social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.