Dr Peter Claus
Access Fellow, Senior Research Fellow in History, Director of OxNet & CredOx
Pembroke College
I am chiefly responsible as Access Fellow at Pembroke College for a professional network of universities, schools and third-sector organisations in London, the North West and the North East that encourage pupils from challenging socio-economic circumstances to enter Oxford and other competitive universities. The ‘Hub’ model for widening access was launched in 2008 and is a cross-collegiate and multi-university initiative that offers intensive preparatory academic courses under the banner of OxNet. It is a regional and community-based approach designed to attract potential candidates from the lowest social quintiles to apply for the least popular subjects (and others) in Oxford, Cambridge, and other research-intensive institutions.
Research Interests
As a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke, I am currently writing a book on the “East End Underworld” in the twentieth century and the third edition of a textbook on historiography co-authored with John Marriott, both for Routledge. The combination of these Access activities and historical research has developed a historical interest in the metropolis and a commitment to research on outreach, public engagement, and the democratisation of the archive.
As Director of Credox, I am interested in collaborative research projects centred broadly on aspects of educational inequality over time. I am currently working on projects with Stanford University and soon with a JCR in Education: Data Science and Statistical Methods.
