Dr Amber Ward
Associate Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Amber Ward is an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Her research studies the relationship between popular ideology and economic change in Britain since 1945. Her PhD, completed at St Andrews in 2024, was a cultural history of deindustrialization in Central Fife, Scotland. Her PhD was fully funded by an AHRC doctoral training partnership award and was shortlisted for the 2025 Samuel Rutherford Prize. In 2022 she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, based at the Institute of European Studies. She has published in Oral History, Scottish Left Review, and Contretemps.
Teaching
Undergraduate
– Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
– Public History Project
– Arguments and Analysis
External activities
Overview
Research Associate, Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT)
