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) |