Professor Goodman is Head of the Research and Innovation Centre. She was appointed as Professor of the History of Education in 2002. She attends and presents at many conferences. Her research interests are focused particularly upon the History of women's education, and in 2002 she founded the Centre for the History of Women's Education, a virtual centre supported by King Alfred's College. She is interested in: Power and authority for women in education Gender, imperialism, national identities and education Women, education and work Gender and the history of 'special needs' education She is editor of the History of Education Society Bulletin, and on the editorial board of the History of Education journal. She is on the Committee of the following organisations, the History of Education Society of Great Britain, the Women's History National Network, Steering Committee, and is the Treasurer of the Southern Women's History Network.

Publications

Books

• 2003 Women and Education, 1800-1980: educational change and personal identities, joint author, Martin, J. (Palgrave/Macmillan)
• 2002 Gender, Colonialism and the Political Experience of Education: an international perspective, edited with Martin, J. (Frank Cass/Woburn)
• 2001 Gender, Politics and the Experience of Education
• 2000 Women, Educational Policy Making and Administration in England, edited with Harrop, S. (Routledge)
  

Chapters in Books

• 2006 3 Biographical entries for Dictionary of National Biography
• 2002 'At the centre of a circle whose circumference spans all nations: the Ladies Committee of the British and Foreign School Society, 1813-1837, in Morgan, S. (ed.) Religion and Feminism in Modern Britain, 1750-1950, (Palgrave/Macmillan)

Articles (Since 1997)

• 2003 Troubling histories and theories: gender and the history of education, History of
  Education, Special Edition, History and Theory, forthcoming
• 2002 Sex and the city: educational initiatives for 'dangerous' and 'endangered' girls in
  late Victorian and early Edwardian Manchester, Paedagogica Historica, Special Edition, The City as Beacon and Light?, [Details]
• 2001 Educating the women of the nation: Priscilla Wakefield and the
  construction of national identity, 1798, Quaker Studies, 165-182 (with C.Leach).
• 2000 Breaking Boundaries: gender politics and the experience of education, History of Education, 29 (5), 383-388
• 2000 Languages of female colonial authority: the educational network of the
  Ladies Committee of the British and Foreign School Society, 1813-1837, Compare, 30 (1), 7-20
• 1999 Managing education at home and abroad: women and the management of
  education in Britain and the British colonies, 1800-1837, Historical Studies in
  Education/Revue D'Histoire de L'Education, vol.11 (1), 59-74
• 1999 Undermining or Building up the Nation? Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816), national identities and an authoritative role for women educationists, History of Education, 28 (3) Special Edition, Education and National Identity, 279-297
• 1998 Catharine Cappe, Unitarian Education and Women's Lives, Faith and
  Freedom Summer/Autumn, 117-128 (with C.Leach)
• 1998 Social investigation and economic empowerment: the Women's Industrial
  Council and the LCC trade schools 1893-1914, History of Education, 27, (3) Special Edition, Education and Economic Performance, 297-314
• 1997 Girls' clubs in late Victorian and early Edwardian Manchester, History of Education Society Bulletin 60, 4-13
• 1997 A question of management style: women school governors 1800-1861, Gender and Education 9 (2) 149-160
• 1997 Constructing contradiction: the power and powerlessness of women and the Bryce Commission, 1895, History of Education 26 (3) 287-306

Journal Special Editions: Editing

• 2001 Reforming Lives? Progressivism, Leadership and Educational Change, History of Education (30) (5), with Martin, J.
• 2000 Breaking Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Experience of Education, History of Education 29 (5), with Martin, J.

Book Reviews: Journals

• British Journal of Educational Studies
• Educational Review
• Gender and Education
• Gender and History
• International Journal of Children's Spirituality
• Literature and History
• Paedagogica Historica
• Women's History Review

Research Projects

• WOMEN AND THE GOVERNANCE OF GIRLS’ SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BRITAIN, 1870-1997: Spencer Foundation: $235,000 (jointly with Liverpool University)
• WOMEN, AUTHORITY AND EDUCATION: King Alfred’s Small Scale Research Grant Scheme: £2070.40
• GOVERNING LADIES: King Alfred’s Small Scale Research Grant Scheme:£1000
• PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES AND EMPIRE: King Alfred's Small Scale Research Grant Scheme: £3226.50
• PEDAGOGY AND SEXUALITY: King Alfred's Small Scale Research Grant Scheme: £436