Heather Ellis

Dr Heather Ellis is Associate Professor in History of Education at the University of Sheffield. She is currently completing a monograph exploring the connections between classical authors and the making of modern science in Britain for Oxford University Press. She is also the author of Masculinity and Science in Britain, 1831-1918 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (Brill, 2012) which was awarded the 2014 Kevin Brehony Prize for the best first book in the history of education. From 2023 until 2025 Heather is Co-Investigator on the multi-institutional ESRC/AHRC-funded project 'The School Meals Service: Past, Present, and - Future?' (Grant ref: ES/X000737/1)

Before moving to Sheffield she was Senior Lecturer in History of Education at Liverpool Hope University (2012-2015) and a Lecturer and Researcher in British History at the Humboldt University, Berlin (2008-2012).

Heather is Co-editor of the journal, History of Education, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.