Dr Tom Allbeson

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Ymchwil

Research interests

• Media history
• Photographic history
• Cultural memory
• Urban history & visual culture

Research Funding

(2018-2019), ‘Photography and the Languages of Reconstruction, c.1944-49’

• Institute for Modern Languages Research Grant to establish research network and deliver research workshop
• Co-Investigators: Professor Claire Gorrara (Cardiff University) & Dr Tom Allbeson
• Special issue forthcoming in the Journal of War and Culture Studies 

(2016-2018), ‘Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding’

• Social Trends Institute Experts’ Meeting Grant to deliver research workshop and publish an edited volume
• Co-Investigators: Professor Jolyon Mitchell (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Tom Allbeson
• Proposal for edited volume currently under review

(2014-2015), ‘Fostering Photographic Research’

• Challenge Investment Fund Grant to develop a series of workshops to foster interdisciplinary postgraduate research in partnership with Edinburgh archives, museums and galleries
• Principal Investigator: Dr Tom Allbeson University of Edinburgh

(2014) The Business of War Photography: Producing and Consuming Images of Conflict

• Co-Investigators: Dr Pippa Oldfield & Dr Tom Allbeson
• Collaboration with Impressions Gallery, Bradford and the Centre for Visual Arts & Culture, Durham University
• Royal Historical Society Grant to support a conference addressing business histories of conflict photography
• Published in a special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies (9:2)

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Current teaching

• A Century of War Photojournalism: Conflict Imagery in the UK
• Employability: Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• Media Scholarship

Previously Taught

• Conflict & Memory: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• War & Photography in Britain, 1914-1989
• Europe of Extremes, 1789-1989
• Postwar Reconstruction: Europe, 1944-57
• Urban History: Twentieth-century Cities
• The Cultural History of Photography
• History and Guilt: The Historiography of the Holocaust

In addition to positions as a lecturer at the universities of Cardiff and Swansea, I previously held a number of teaching positions at Durham University (Tutor, Department of History, 2010/11 and 2013/14), University of Edinburgh (Tutor, Edinburgh College of Art, 2013-2015) and Edinburgh Napier University (Lecturer, 2014/15).

In 2018, I completed my PG Certificate in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, and became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Trosolwg o'r Gyrfa

2024-presennol: Darllenydd mewn Hanes y Cyfryngau a Ffotograffig, Prifysgol Caerdydd

2021-2024: Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Hanes y Cyfryngau, Prifysgol Caerdydd

2017-2021: Darlithydd mewn Hanes Diwylliannol, Prifysgol Caerdydd

2015-2017: Darlithydd mewn Hanes Modern, Prifysgol Abertawe

2014-2015: Cymrawd Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol, Adran Hanes, Prifysgol Nottingham

2014-2015: Cydymaith Ymchwil (rhan-amser), Prifysgol Caeredin

2013: Cymrawd Ymchwil Ôl-ddoethurol, Sefydliad Astudiaethau Uwch yn y Dyniaethau, Prifysgol Caeredin

2003-2013: Grantiau Uwch Swyddogion / Grantiau Swyddogion, Cronfa Dreftadaeth y Loteri, Caeredin

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2012: PhD (Hanes Diwylliannol), Prifysgol Durham

2008: MA (Astudiaethau Ffotograffiaeth), Prifysgol Durham

2001: MA Anrh. (Athroniaeth a Llenyddiaeth Saesneg), Prifysgol Caeredin

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

Ar hyn o bryd rwy'n goruchwylio prosiectau ymchwil doethurol cydweithredol mewn partneriaeth â'r Imperial War Museums, Historic England ac Amnest Rhyngwladol. 

Rwy'n croesawu cynigion PhD yn y meysydd canlynol:

• Gwrthdaro a ffotonewyddiaduraeth
• Ffotograffiaeth ddyngarol
• Ffotograffiaeth, cof a chymdeithasau ôl-wrthdaro
• Hanesion y cylchgrawn ffotograffau
• Hanesion ffotograffiaeth a gofod trefol
• Hanesion ffotograffiaeth, democratiaeth ac actifiaeth

DS Ym mis Ebrill 2025, mae dau gyfle byw ar gyfer prosiectau PhD a ariennir:

Anghydraddoldeb Cymdeithasol ac Arddull Ddogfennol Prydain: Ffotograffau Bert Hardy ar gyfer cylchgrawn Picture Post , 1940-57

Archif y Cymoedd yn Ffotogallery: Cymuned, Ffotograffiaeth a Democratiaeth yn Ne Cymru, 1978-2028

Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol

Anna Gormley

Sadie Levy Gale

Andrew Cleminson

Nelly Ating

Prosiectau'r gorffennol

Rio Creech-Nowagiel, Picturing Malaya: Colonial counterinsurgency, camera imagery and imperial imaginaries in 'emergency' Britain (1948-58). Traethawd PhD, Prifysgol Caerdydd. (2024)

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