Queens Birthday Honours for founder of York Students in Schools
Posted on 21 June 2011
Dr Allen Warren, a senior lecturer in the Department of History and founder of York Students in Schools, has been made an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List.
I am greatly honoured by this award and particularly as it is associated with my career at the University of York
Dr Allen Warren
York Students in Schools, which Dr Warren established in 1995 harnesses the expertise and enthusiasm of nearly 600 student volunteers a year to provide added help and value to local schools. Dr Warren was co-ordinator of the University Community Fund which is supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Active Community Fund and the Shepherd Group, and has benefited local charities, elderly people’s homes and Youth Services among others.
Dr Warren also established the York Award - a personal and professional development for students which was the first of its type in the country. He chairs the University's Volunteering and Community Committee, which supports and develops projects for students and staff to volunteer in the community.
“I am greatly honoured by this award and particularly as it is associated with my career at the University of York. My interest in the development of young people is founded in my engagement as a volunteer in the Scouting movement, whose principles of personal development, integrity and community involvement I adapted to a university environment,” he said.
Previously a head of the Department of History, Dr Warren’s research interests are in the fields of nineteenth and twentieth-century political and social history. He was Provost of Vanbrugh College from 1984 to 2008.
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