Dr Arthur Chapman is Associate Professor in History Education at the UCL Institute of Education and a member of the research team at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Historical Association and a member of the editorial board of the Curriculum Journal, a series editor of the International Review of History Education, an associate editor of The London Review of Education and an editor of The History Education Research Journal.

Arthur taught history for 12 years prior to beginning to work in universities full-time in 2005 and he has worked as a history educator and history education researcher in the universities of Cumbria, Edge Hill and London.