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Professor Diane Urquhart

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Prof Diane Urquhart

Professor Diane Urquhart

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Research 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

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  • d.urquhart@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 90973427

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

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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) 

 

 


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