Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Nineteenth-century social history
- Crime history
- Women’s history
Public outreach & key achievements
- Bad Bridget’ research project: https://badbridget.wordpress.com/
- Won the National University of Ireland Publication Prize in Irish History, 2015, for her book
‘A most diabolical dead’: infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900 (Manchester University Press) - Involved in the ‘Mad or Bad’ museum exhibition, Armagh County Museum 2016-17
http://www.historyarmagh.org/?p=521 - Has featured on television programmes for BBC, Channel 4, RTÉ, and TG4
Research students
| PhD Title | ‘Protestant middle-class sibling relations in nineteenth-century Ulster’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | ‘Clothing the poor in Ulster, c. 1850-1914’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | ‘The institutional care of Ireland’s elderly female population, 1845-1908’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | ‘Cultural perceptions of Irish Roman Catholic women religious, 1849-1907’ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |