Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Nineteenth-century Irish history
- Comparative famine history
- Pre-Troubles history of Northern Ireland
Public outreach & key achievements
- BBC iWonder Guide: The Irish Potato Famine (2015)
- Personal website
Research students
| PhD Title | Poverty, poor relief and public health in Belfast c.1800-1851 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | A nineteenth-century Irish coroner: William Charles Waddell (1846-76) |
| Country | USA |
| PhD Title | Power, profit, plantocracy and the 2nd Earl Belmore |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Soldiers, politics and Empire: Ireland, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1900 |
| Country | Ireland |
| PhD Title | Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Ulster, c.1929-1969 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Education, famine, and conversion: Evangelical missions’ strategies and accusations of Souperism in Catholic Ireland, 1800-1869 |
| Country | France |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | The churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Lecturer in History, University of Manchester |
| PhD Title | Jewish identity and community in Belfast, 1920-48 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Outreach Officer, Imperial War Museum, London |
| PhD Title | The Newfoundland-Irish in industrial Cape Breton, 1880-1920 |
| Country | Canada |
| Current Position | Institutional Historian, Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada |