Rebecca Searle Author

Rebecca Searle is a contemporary historian whose work focuses on the ways in which the study of the past can be used to make critical interventions in the politics of the present. She is a principal lecturer at the University of Brighton and deputy director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. Searle established and leads the University of Brighton Housing Forum, which brings together researchers, community organisations and policy makers to develop local solutions to the housing crisis in Brighton and Hove.