Dr Alasdair Richardson is a Reader in Education at the University of Winchester, where he primarily works with trainee and serving teachers on a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes in the Institute of Education. He researches and publishes in the field of Holocaust Education – specifically exploring how young people and educators encounter, and emotionally engage with, the topic of the Holocaust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a freelance Educator on the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz programmes, a member of the Education Consultative Group for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a graduate of Yad Vashem, and a current educational grantee with the Association for Jewish Refugees. First and foremost, however, Alasdair is a teacher with nearly 20 years of school teaching, leadership and governance experience across the Primary and Secondary sectors.
