School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology

Dr Diarmid Finnegan

Dr. Diarmid A. Finnegan (Extended Information)

Qualifications

BSc Hons (Geography) Glasgow 2000.
MRes Edinburgh 2001.
PhD Edinburgh 2005.

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

Email: d.finnegan@qub.ac.uk

Address

Room 02 029, Elmwood Building
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44 (0)28 9097 3981

Current Teaching:

Undergraduate

GGY1005 Human Geographies of the Modern World
GGY1006 Researching Globalisation
GGY2028 Contemporary Approaches to Geographical Enquiry
GGY3001 Dissertation
GGY3047 Geography, Science and Society

PhD Candidates

Colm Lavery (first supervisor)
Tanya O'Sullivan (second supervisor)

Current Administrative Roles:

Advisor of Studies

SSC representative on Postgraduate Research Committee

GAP Web Co-ordinator

Current Research: Society, Space and Culture

My research takes as a central conceptual focus the historical geographies of scientific knowledge. I am currently working on a project examining science and platform culture in Victorian Britain. Concerned with the spatialities of scientific speech in civic culture, the project builds on previous work on the spaces of civic science in nineteenth-century Scotland, the subject of a book recently published by Pickering & Chatto.

Publications:

Selected Publications

Books

Finnegan, D. A., Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland (Pickering and Chatto, London, 2009). Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for Scottish History

Book Chapters

Finnegan, D. A. 'Geographies of scientific speech in mid-Victorian Edinburgh' in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds) Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science (Chicago: University of Chicagor Press, 2011), pp. 153-177.

Journal Articles

Finnegan, D. A. 'Exeter-Hall science and evangelical rhetoric in mid-Victorian Britain', Journal of Victorian Culture 16(1) (2011) 46-64.

Finnegan, D. A. 'The spatial turn: geographical approaches in the history of science', Journal of the History of Biology 41(2) (2008) 369-388.

Withers, C. W. J., Finnegan D. A. and Higgitt, R. 'Geography's other histories? Geography and science in the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-c.1933', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31 (2006) 433-451.

Finnegan, D. A. 'The work of ice: glacial theory and scientific culture in early-Victorian Edinburgh', British Journal for the History of Science, 37 (2004) 29-52.