Professor Andrew Thorpe
Biography
I attended the Gosforth and Henry Fanshawe Schools in Dronfield, North-East Derbyshire. In 1980, I went to the University of Birmingham to study for a B.A. in Medieval and Modern History, graduating with first-class honours in 1983. After a year spent as a Repairs Ordering Clerk in the Housing Department of Sheffield City Council, I returned to academic life in October 1984 when I entered the University of Sheffield to research for a PhD in History, under the supervision of Dr John Stevenson. I was awarded the PhD for my thesis, on ‘The British general election of 1931’, in 1988. By that time, I had been appointed as a Temporary Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, and I was appointed to a permanent lectureship in 1988. I became a Senior Lecturer in 1996 and Professor of Modern British History in 2002. I was Head of the Department of History between 2004 and 2007, and after that was Deputy Head and Director of Research of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Since August 2010 I have been the Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Humanities.
