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Professor Diane Urquhart
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsResearch expertise focuses on gender and women’s history primarily in modern Ireland with a particular interest in Northern Ireland/Ulster (from 1800 to the present day). Key interests include female political activism (unionism, nationalism, suffrage, local and national government representation), reform movements (such as the Ladies’ Land League) and aristocratic political patronage. More recent research areas include Irish divorce and abortion as well as the intersections between female conservatism and unionism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
HAPP colleagues working in sub-fields and related projects:
- Dr Elaine Farrell
- Dr Marie Coleman
- Prof. Peter Gray
- Prof. Fearghal McGarry
Contact info
Research Interests
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Irish gender and women’s history in the modern period
- Gender legal history especially relating to marriage and its dissolution
- Reform movements
- Modern Irish politics
Public outreach & key achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Media engagement
- Historical consultancy
- Academic peer reviewer
- Public outreach with bodies such as the National Trust, AHRC Being Human Festival, Liverpool Irish Festival
- International keynote lecturer
- Member of Advisory Council of the British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS)
Research students
| PhD Title | ‘Caught in the crossfire: Catholic religious sisters in Northern Ireland during ‘the Troubles’ (1968-1998). |
| Name | Briege Rafferty |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Years of Study | 2017 to date |
| PhD Title | Elderly women in Irish institutions, c. 1830-1908 |
| Name | Sarah McHugh |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Years of Study | 2017 to date |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Irish soldiers and shellshock, 1914-39 |
| Name | Dr Michael Robinson |
| Graduated | 2017 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Liverpool) |
| PhD Title | Methodism and the Home Rule crises, 1886-1914 |
| Name | Dr Nicola Morris |
| Graduated | 2007 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Lecturer in History (University of Chester) |
| PhD Title | Informers in 20th-century Ireland |
| Name | Dr Angela Duffy |
| Graduated | 2016 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Author of Informers in 20th-century Ireland (2018) |