Georgina Brewis is Professor of Social History at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. She is a historian of higher education, voluntary action and humanitarianism in Britain and the wider world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research and teaching interests centre on the history of student life and student culture and include a series of linked projects with Daniel Laqua at Northumbria University that explore the impact of the First World War on university life. Georgina is Director of Generation UCL: 200 Years of Student Life in London, a research and engagement project in the run-up to UCL's bicentenary in 2026.