Colm Lavery

Colm Lavery

Qualifications

BSc Geography, QUB 2008
MSc Environmental Engineering, QUB 2010
MA Modern History, QUB 2011

Postgraduate

Email: clavery17@qub.ac.uk

Address

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

Current Research: Society, Space and Culture

‘The British Eugenics Movement in the early twentieth century: A Geographical Approach’
My interests are centred around the concept that geography (place and space) has a conditioning effect on scientific thought and practices. My Ph.D focuses on the British Eugenics Movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I am paying particular attention to the rhetorical spaces in which eugenics was discussed and proselytised, the roles of learned societies in the development of eugenic ideas and the networks of communication through which the concepts were disseminated. These points are further elucidated by investigation of local, regional and national understandings. My interests also extend to the international perception of eugenics (particularly American) and to how geography and global networks conditioned its meaning.

Supervisors
Dr Diarmid Finnegan and Prof David Livingstone

Additional Information:

Currently demonstrator for Geographical Research, GGY 2024