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Dr Alistair Beecher

Ordinary Fellow

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 Fellow of 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 co-directing the Graduate School and on the design and delivery of a broad researcher skills and development training programme for postgraduate students across the university, but he also teaches history across a number of 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 the Diploma in Local and Social History and the Postgraduate Certificate and MSt in Historical Studies. He also supervises various MSt and DPhil research projects.

Research Interests

Alistair’s research interests are in the religious and social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.