Gary Mills

Contact

• workRoom B80 Dearing
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4497
• fax0115 846 6600
• gary.mills@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Gary Mills came to the School of Education in September 2001 from the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. He is now a member of the Centre for Applied Research in Teacher Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy (CARTECP). Before entering higher education he taught for thirteen years in Suffolk and was involved with the teacher training programme at the University of Cambridge.

He is also chair of the School's Equal Opportunities Committee.

He is a committee member of the History Teachers Educators Network and he is active member of the Historical Association.

His main teaching duties are on the History PGCE course and supervising higher degree students. Recently he has been involved with a team of tutors in developing a new MA in Learning and Teaching.

Research Summary

His main research interest is in the history of education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in particular the connections between localities and Cambridge and Oxford colleges. He is… read more

Recent Publications

• GARY MILLS and ROLF WIESEMES, 2012. Educating Minorities and Developing Community Cohesion in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Education and Minorities Continuum. 89-106 (In Press.)
• TABARO, C., WIESEMES, R. and MILLS, G., 2009. Kigali Institute of Education Fighting Genocide Ideology: Transforming Rwanda into a Cohesive Community The New Times. 11
• MILLS, G., 2007. Beginning teachers and their use of archives and museum resources
• MILLS, G., 2007. Dusting Off the Archives!: the use of archival materials in history classrooms (In Press.)

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Gary is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. His research supervision areas include:

• history of education (with a special interest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)
• history teacher education
• post 16 history teaching learning strategies
• use of ICT in history teaching

Research proposals: please email Gary if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

Current Research

His main research interest is in the history of education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and in particular the connections between localities and Cambridge and Oxford colleges. He is also currently involved in a joint research project with Dr. Rolf Wiesemes on the teaching of the Holocaust in different language and cultural contexts. He is on the East Midlands Regional Archive Council and he is currently working with Helen Watts, the regional Archives Education Officer, on developing the use of archive material in schools. He has further interests in developing the use of ICT in history teaching and learning and on how mentors work with beginning teachers with ICT.

• GARY MILLS and ROLF WIESEMES, 2012. Educating Minorities and Developing Community Cohesion in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Education and Minorities Continuum. 89-106 (In Press.)
• TABARO, C., WIESEMES, R. and MILLS, G., 2009. Kigali Institute of Education Fighting Genocide Ideology: Transforming Rwanda into a Cohesive Community The New Times. 11
• MILLS, G., 2007. Beginning teachers and their use of archives and museum resources
• MILLS, G., 2007. Dusting Off the Archives!: the use of archival materials in history classrooms (In Press.)
• MILLS, G., 2007. Beginning teachers’ perspectives on teaching the Holocaust and the use of Holocaust exhibitions to develop pedagogical thinking (In Press.)
• MILLS, G., ed., 2007. Teaching Sensitive and Controversial Issues in History: Conference papers from the annual conference, The University of Nottingham 2005 the History Teacher Education Network.
• MUTTON, T., MILLS, G. and MCNICHOLL, J., 2006. Mentor skills in a new context: working with trainee teachers to develop the use of information and communications technology in their subject teaching Technology, Pedagogy and Education. 15(3), 337-352
• MILLS, G.D. and WIESEMES, R., 2006. Teaching the Holocaust: historical and moral dimensions and the use of language
• MILLS, G.D., 2005. EmSource, An East Midlands resource for Teachers and Learners
• MILLS, G.D., 2004. Joint Editor of History Teacher Educators Network Conference Papers 2004
• MILLS, G.D., 2003. How do learners make sense of the past, conference papers from the annual conference, University of Warwick
• MILLS, G.D., 2002. Editor of History Teacher Educator Network Conference Papers 2002