Visiting Research Fellow:
Dr Robin Woolven
Dr Robin Woolven joined MCIS in 2006 to research the civil protection aspects of the 'UK Nuclear History 1953-1974' project.
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His first career of 23 years was as a Royal Air Force specialist navigator which included operational tours with both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons systems - the Blue Steel missile in the Vulcan B2 and UK and US tactical weapons in Canberra, Shackleton and Nimrod aircraft. These tours were interspersed with a number of weapon systems development flying posts.
A second career was 17 years as an Intelligence Officer in the security service comprising counter-espionage and counter-terrorist work. He retired in 1997 to research UK civil defence policy 1935-1945, the subject of his 2001 PhD thesis in the War Studies Department at King's College, London.
Before joining MCIS he was a Research Consultant to the Domestic Management of Terrorist Attacks in the UK Project at the Centre for Defence Studies, International Policy Institute, King's College, London. A Fellow of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies, he has been a member of that Institute's General Council since 1999.
Recent Publications:
Introduction to: The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945. Edited by Ann Saunders, London Topographical Society ISBN 0 902087 51 7 (2005).
Wartime St Pancras - a London borough defends itself by Charles Allen Newbery (1945) transcribed and annotated by Robin Woolven and edited by F Peter Woodford, Camden History Society ISBN 9 780904491647 (2006).
Thirteen new entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 to date.
Relevant Journal Articles:
'London, Munich and ARP' Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, Vol. 143 (1998).
'The London Experience of Regional Government 1938-1945' The London Journal, Vol. 20 No. 2, 2000.
'London and the V Weapons' Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies , Vol. 147 No. 1 (2002).
With Prof. Simon Wessely, Dr Bill Durodie and Prof. Edgar Jones 'Public Panic and Morale: World War Two Civilian Responses re-examined in the light of the current anti-terrorist campaign' Journal of Social Medicine, in late 2005 and, revised, in Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 9, pp. 57-73. (Jan. 2006).
World War II - the salvation of the London Metropolitan Boroughs? Camden History Review, 2006.
The great St Pancras civil defence revolt of 1957-1958 Camden History Review, 2007.
With Prof. Edgar Jones and Shahina Rahman 'The Maudsley Hospital: design and strategic direction, 1923-1939' Medical History. 51 357-378 (July 2007).
Contact:
E-mail: mcis@soton.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2252