Professor Rick Trainor

Rick Trainor has been Principal and Professor of Social History at King’s College London since 2004. Previously he was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social History at the University of Greenwich.
 
An American by birth, he received a BA summa cum laude with Honours in American Civilization at Brown University, Rhode Island. He took his doctorate at Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar and a junior research fellow) before moving in 1979 to the Department of Economic (later Economic and Social) History at Glasgow University, where he subsequently became Professor, Dean of Social Sciences and Vice-Principal.
 
His published research has focused on 19th and 20th century British elites, especially in industrialised urban areas. He has also been heavily involved in computer-based teaching and research in subjects related to history, as well as in national initiatives to improve teaching more generally. He has written more than 60 papers on these topics.
 
Professor Trainor is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College Oxford and of Trinity College of Music. As well as holding the Chair for the Advisory Council, Institute of Historical Research and the London Metropolitan Network, he is a Council Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a member of the UK-US Fulbright Commission, a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal History Society. He was President of Universities UK, an organisation representing the heads of all UK universities, from 2007-09
 
Professor Trainor's publications.
 
Professor Trainor’s role in the London Leaders Programme.