Julie-Marie Strange

Prof. Julie-Marie Strange studied for her PhD at the University of Liverpool between 1996 and 2000. She began her career at Birkbeck, University of London, before joining the University of Manchester in 2003. She moved to Durham University in October 2019.

Julie-Marie is an historian of modern Britain and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences with long standing research interests in the history of inequalities and emotions.
She has published widely on death, grief and poverty, fatherhood and class, charitable fundraising, the emotional politics of money, and on pedigree dogs and pet keeping. More recently she has begun working on social class in the countryside.
Julie-Marie has run research grants funded by the ESRC, AHRC and Leverhulme Trust.
She has experience working with a range of non-HE organisations, including the National Trust, Salvation Army International Heritage Centre, Beamish: the Living Museum of the North and Blue Cross Pet Bereavement Support Service. She is a co-founder of The Pet Loss Network (petlossnetwork.org).