Collection USS138 - University of Birmingham Student (Alumni) Papers: Papers of Trevor Millum

Trevor Millum was born on 11 September 1945. He was educated at Woking Grammar School and studied History at the University of Birmingham from 1964 to 1967 before completing a PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Visual Communication in Advertising, later published as Images of Woman. While at the Centre he edited the first edition of the CCCS Journal: Working Papers in Cultural Studies.
He then trained as a teacher at the University of Zambia and taught History, Geography, and English for three years in Zambia at Nchelenge Secondary School, Luapula Province before returning to the UK where he taught in Cleethorpes and Barton-on-Humber. He also worked at United World College of South East Asia in Singapore before becoming an advisory teacher for English and ICT when he returned to Humberside. Later he also worked in software design for education and wrote guides and resource materials. He has worked with educational publishers to produce innovative teaching materials, focusing on creativity, poetry and ICT. He A lifelong member of The National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE), he became its Director of Communications and Development 1999-2005. He is the creator of and poet in residence at Teachit’s Poetry Place, for which he has written over 150 teaching resources. He writes stories and poems for children and his poems are widely published and anthologised