Research, Writing and Publishing

• Five academic books and edited collection with leading academic publishers. Research discussed in London Review of Books, New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Post, Belfast Telegraph and The Nation.
• Popular history books with Reaktion (translated into Japanese) and Gill. History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts shortlisted for An Post History Book of the Year Book Prize (2024).
• Medical history textbook for Macmillan International. Four-volume collection of food history primary sources published with Routledge.
• Over 20 articles published in medical and historical journals.
• Over 60 book reviews published, including one in Times Literary Supplement.
• Over 70 presentation at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Auckland, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Sorbonne (Paris), Trinity College Dublin, Uppsala and Venice.

Teaching

• Fourteen years experience teaching at leading universities including Manchester, Sheffield, University College Dublin and Ulster, and Senior Fellow of HEA.
• Course Directorship of Master’s course at Ulster.
• Extensive supervisory experience of undergraduate, Master’s and PhD research projects. Shortlisted UUSU PhD Supervisor of the Year (2024).
• External examiner invitations at TÚ Dublin, Manchester Metropolitan University and Royal Holloway, London.
• Guest lecture at Harrow School.

• Faculty EDI Lead (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences).

Research Funding

• Funding received from UKRI, AHRC, Wellcome Trust, Irish Research Council, European Science Foundation and DfE.
• Funding panel member for Irish Research Council and AHRC.
• Recipient of Ulster University’s Distinguished Researcher Prize (2020).
• Shortlisted UUSU PhD Supervisor of the Year (2024).

Podcasting, Media and Public Speaking

• PI on the podcast Epidemic Belfast podcast www.epidemic-belfast.com.
• Co-organiser of major four-month exhibition at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
• Event organiser for ESRC Festival of Social Science, Northern Ireland Science Festival and Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics.
• Articles and interviews with Metro, Irish Times, Independent, Guardian, and many others.
• Consultancy work and interviews with Disney+, Sky News, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC1, BBC2, RTE Radio and NVTV, and films including Suffragette and 21 Days.

Publishing Experience

• Book Review Editor position with Social History of Medicine and Pharmacy in History journals.
• Editorial board member for Manchester University Press’s Social Histories of Medicine book series.
• Extensive experience copy-editing, liaising with authors, managing an assistant and attending meetings with Oxford University Press.
• Peer review invitations from leading book publishers including Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury and others.

Funded projects

• PI: Translating Medical History Research Into Screen’ (AHRC Impact Acceleration Award)

• PI: Engaging Local Belfast Communities in Medical History and Heritage (AHRC Impact Acceleration Award).

• PI: Feeding Children? Food Poverty across Ireland: Historical, Current and Future Perspectives (AHRC Impact Acceleration Award).

• PI: Epidemic Belfast www.epidemic-belfast.com. Listen to our podcast on Spotify Amazon and Apple.(DfE/AHRC funded).

• PI: ‘Medicine, Ethics and Hunger Strike Management in the British Isles, c.1909-81’ (Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship)

• Co-PI: ‘Challenging Health Outcomes/Integrating Care Environments Phase 3: ‘Collaborative Community Research to tackle Health Inequalities’

• Co-PI: CHOICE - A Community Consortium To Tackle Health Disparities For People Living with Mental Illness (UKRI with UU School of Psychology).

Visiting Fellowships

• HEX (Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences), University of Tampere

• Max Planck Centre for the History of Emotions (Berlin)

• INSERM (Paris)

• Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine (Oslo).