Claudia Soares is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at Newcastle University, working on a 7-year project Caring Communities: Rethinking Children’s Social Care, 1800-present. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester with Prof Julie-Marie Strange, before working in a number of third sector organisations that support children and young people facing multiple disadvantage. She returned to academic research via a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship held initially at Queen Mary University of London, before moving to Newcastle. She published her first book, A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1870-1920 in 2023 (OUP), and is currently writing her second book In Care and After Care: Welfare and Emotions in Britain, Australia, and Canada, 1800-1930. She has also published in Cultural and Social History, History Workshop Journal, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Victorian Culture, and The History of the Family.
Dr Claudia Soares
Advisory Board - Recovery Histories
