Glen O'Hara
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Glen O'Hara (born 1974) is an academic historian, who also writes on politics for a number of publications in the United Kingdom. He is professor of modern and contemporary history at Oxford Brookes University.
O'Hara completed an undergraduate degree in history at Oxford University between 1993 and 1996, before completing a M.Sc. in Economic and Social History in 1996–1997, during which time he won the Eubule Thelwall Prize for history and the Gladstone Prize for history and politics.[1] Following graduation he briefly worked as a schoolteacher. From 1999 he studied for a PhD in history at University College London under the supervision of Professor Kathleen Burk; he graduated in 2002. In 2001 he was appointed lecturer in economic history at the University of Bristol, where he spent a year before moving to New College, Oxford as lecturer in modern history. In 2005 he moved to become a lecturer at Oxford Brookes, and was promoted to senior lecturer a year later. He became reader in the history of public policy in 2010 and professor of modern and contemporary history in 2013.[2]
