Article
Clarke J, Clark A & Wright V (2024) Introduction. International Labor and Working-Class History, 105, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547924000085
Research Fellow
Dementia and Ageing 4S26, RG Bomont Building University of Stirling Stirling, FK9 4LA
Valerie is currently Research Fellow on the ESRC funded project 'Reimagining the Future in Older Age' based in Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling.
Previous experience:
She completed her PhD in the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow see this link.
Valerie's background is as a historian of modern Britain with particular expertise in gender, social and political history.
Additional information
Valerie has appeared as an interviewee on a variety of documentaries:
Valerie currently serves on the steering committees of Women’s History Scotland (website coordinator), Scottish Labour History Society, the steering group of Scottish Critical Heritage and is an associate member of the Centre for Gender History at the University of Glasgow
Valerie has also participated in a School of Humanities project at the University of Glasgow in collaboration with Education Scotland to create ‘Broad General Education’ learning resources to be used as part of the Curriculum for Excellence in Scottish schools. The resource ‘Homes in high places: Urban life in 20th century Glasgow’ is available here see this link.
Valerie's current research focuses on exploring older adult's perceptions of future time and hopes and desires for the future.
Other research interests include:
Article
Clarke J, Clark A & Wright V (2024) Introduction. International Labor and Working-Class History, 105, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547924000085
Article
De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications
Tomlinson J, Phillips J & Wright V (2022) De-industrialization: a case study of Dundee, 1951–2001, and its broad implications. Business History, 64 (1), pp. 28-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2019.1676235
Article
'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day
Wright V (2021) 'Housing Problems … are Political Dynamite': Housing Disputes in Glasgow c. 1971 to the Present Day. Sociological Research Online, 26 (4), pp. 976-988. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418780038
Book Review
Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019
Wright V (2021) Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019. Review of: Making the Woman Worker: precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919–2019 by Eileen Boris, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, xx + 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-087462-9. Social History, 46 (2), pp. 230-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2021.1896242
Article
Hazley B, Abrams L, Kearns A & Wright V (2021) Place, memory and the British high rise experience: negotiating social change on the Wyndford Estate, 1962-2015. Contemporary British History, 35 (1), pp. 72-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2020.1845148
Commentary
French J, Lovatt M & Wright V (2021) Through the Utopian Lens of Opportunity: Using fiction and theatre to reimagine the post-COVID-19 future. Sociological Review Magazine. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/november-2021/methods-and-methodology/through-the-utopian-lens-of-opportunity/
Article
Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2020) Being a 'Clydesider' in the age of deindustrialisation: skilled male identity and economic restructuring in the West of Scotland since the 1960s. Labor History, 61 (2), pp. 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2019.1666973
Article
Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland
Wright V, Kearns A, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Planning for play: seventy years of ineffective public policy? The example of Glasgow, Scotland. Planning Perspectives, 34 (2), pp. 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2017.1393627
Article
Kearns A, Wright V, Abrams L & Hazley B (2019) Slum clearance and relocation: a reassessment of social outcomes combining short-term and long-term perspectives. Housing Studies, 34 (2), pp. 201-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1409342
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Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow
Abrams L, Fleming L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2019) Isolated and dependent: women and children in high-rise social housing in post-war Glasgow. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 794-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472897
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Hazley B, Wright V, Abrams L & Kearns A (2019) 'People and their homes rather than housing in the usual sense'? Locating the tenant's voice in Homes in High Flats. Women's History Review, 28 (5), pp. 728-745. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1472890
Article
Phillips J, Wright V & Tomlinson J (2019) Deindustrialization, the Linwood Car Plant and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England in the 1960s and 1970s. Twentieth Century British History, 30 (3), pp. 399-423. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz005
Book Chapter
Clark J & Wright V (2018) Urban Regeneration in Glasgow: Looking to the past to build the future? The case of the 'New Gorbals'. In: Clark J & Wise N (eds.) Urban Renewal, Community and Participation: Theory, Policy and Practice. The Urban Book Series. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72311-2_3
Book Chapter
What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The Politics of the Kitchen' in Interwar Scotland
Hughes A & Wright V (2018) What did the rent strikers do next? Women and 'The Politics of the Kitchen' in Interwar Scotland. In: Gray N (ed.) Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle. Transforming Capitalism. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, pp. 17-32. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786605757/Rent-and-its-Discontents-A-Century-of-Housing-Struggle
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Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016
Abrams L, Hazley B, Wright V & Kearns A (2018) Aspiration, Agency, and the Production of New Selves in a Scottish New Town, c.1947–c.2016. Twentieth Century British History, 29 (4), pp. 576-604. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy006
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Wright V (2018) ‘‘Tinkering at a local level’: Unemployment, State intervention and community agency in Ferguslie Park, Paisley c. 1972-1977’. Scottish Labour History, 53, pp. 192-211.
Article
Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburghc.1918–1939
Breitenbach E & Wright V (2014) Women as Active Citizens: Glasgow and Edinburghc.1918–1939. Women's History Review, 23 (3), pp. 401-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2013.820602
Article
A woman's industry? The role of women in the workforce of the Dundee jute industry c. 1945-1979
Wright V (2014) A woman's industry? The role of women in the workforce of the Dundee jute industry c. 1945-1979. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 8 (2/3), pp. 110-125. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmcp.2014.063847
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The Prevention of Rural Depopulation: Housing and the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, c.1917-39
Wright V (2012) The Prevention of Rural Depopulation: Housing and the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, c.1917-39. Twentieth Century British History, 23 (3), pp. 336-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr048
Article
The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63
Morelli CJ, Tomlinson J & Wright V (2012) The managing of competition: Government and industry relationships in the jute industry 1957–63. Business History, 54 (5), pp. 765-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631129
Book Chapter
Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee
Wright V (2011) Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee. In: Jute No More: Transforming Dundee. Dundee: Dundee University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781845860905.003.0006
Monograph
The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change
Wright V, Tomlinson J & Morelli C (2011) The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change. London: Pickering and Chatto.
Article
Education for active citizenship: women’s organisations in interwar Scotland
Wright V (2009) Education for active citizenship: women’s organisations in interwar Scotland. History of Education, 38 (3: Education and Citizenship in Modern Scotland), pp. 419-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600902855454
Valerie has a wide and varied range of teaching experience from her previous roles including course coordination at undergraduate honours level and course contribution at postgraduate level. She also has experience of supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in History and Urban Studies.
Recent experience from the University of Glasgow includes:
Course co-ordination:
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