Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Modern Italy
- Social and gender history of twentieth-century Europe
- History of the emotions
- History of motherhood and the family
- Creative approaches to history
- Fiction and history
Current Research Opportunities
Public outreach & key achievements
- British Academy mid-career fellow (2026-2027): 'Radical Parents: Protest politics and new ideas about parenting and children in the long 1970s'
- Co-PI on AHRC network 'Institutions and Infant Care: Foundling Hospitals and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth-Century Europe' (2024-2025)
Research students
| PhD Title | ‘We will go out and raise the wind’: female criminality and society in Ulster, 1890s-1920s |
| Name | Rachel Newell |
| Years of Study | 2025 (second Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà supervisor) |
| PhD Title | Mapping Connections: Exploring the networks of Anglophone foreign women in late Imperial China, 1860-1911 |
| Name | Áine Poland |
| Years of Study | 2025 (third supervisor) |