Professor Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded this year’s University Research Prize for Public Engagement with Research.
The prize relates to work that Professor Lynch has undertaken on shaping public understanding and policy with regard to the history of UK child migration programmes which sent around 100,000 children, unaccompanied by parents, to other parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth between 1869 and 1970.
Since 2014, Professor Lynch has been engaged in a range of underpinning research on the history of these child migration programmes which have included his monograph Remembering Child Migration: Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Bloomsbury, 2015) and other forthcoming articles on the post-war policy context for child migration programmes and systemic failures in post-war Catholic child migration schemes.