TALKS

2025

• Royal College of Nursing, Seminar series, online, 29 May 2025

• Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Lunchtime Talk, online, 28 May 2025

• Historians on Screen - Pathways to Media Work for Historians (online - Ulster University), 23 May 2025

• HSTM Network Ireland Annual Conference, Ulster University, 9 May 2025

• European Social Science History Conference, Leiden University, 25-29 March 2025

• Northern Ireland Science Festival, Ulster Museum, 23 February 2025

• Bone, Blood, Birth and Brains: The Life of a Victorian Surgeon in Belfast, Northern Ireland Science Festival, Sunflower Bar (Belfast), 12 February 2025

• Historians on Screen - Turning Research into Broadcast Ideas, (online- Ulster University), 24 January 2025

 

2024

• Northern Bridge Consortium Development: Food Studies Workshop, Durham University, 19 November 2024

• Red Line Book Festival, 19 October 2024

• Ethics and Philosophy of Extreme Fasting, University of Bern, Switzerland, 31 May-1 June 2024

• HSTM Network Ireland annual conference, Carlow College, 27-28 April 2024

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2023

• Pandemics, Famines and Industrial Disasters of the 20th Century: Discourses of Remembering and Forgetting, Warsaw, 24-25 November 2023

• 'Dietary Change in Post-Famine Ireland’. At: Feeding Ireland since the Famine: Sustainability, Production and the State', Dublin City University, 21 October 2023 (*keynote)

• How to Take Patients' Histories: Doing Medical History from Below in Practice, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 28-29 September 2023

• CHOICE Project Workshop, Ulster University, 20 July 2023

• British Society for History of Science: Digital Festival for the History of Science (online), 3-7 July 2023 (*keynote)

• Precarity in the Academy: Issues and Solutions for the History of Medicine, Wroxton College, Oxfordshire,  26-29 June 2023

• Rethinking Gastro-Nationalism: Food, Political Environment and Embodiment, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès and International Consortium of Critical Theory (UC-Berkeley), 15 June 2023

• Food Poverty across Ireland: Past, Current and Future Perspectives, Ulster University, Derry, 5 May 2023

• Modernity and the Gut, University of Glasgow, 27-28 April 2023

• HSTM Ireland Annual Conference, Dublin City University, 20-21 April 2023

• European Social Science History Conference 2023, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 12-15 April 2023

• Healing through Photography Conference, The MAC, Belfast, 3-4 April 2023 (*keynote panel member)

• Collective Experiences in History, Tampere University, Finland, 13-15 March 2023

• Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon (ABC) Council Online Lecture Series, 2 February 2023

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2022

• HSTM Network Ireland Seminar Series, 7 December 2022

• From the Black Death to COVID-19: Airborne Diseases in History, Literature, and Culture, Universität Wien (University of Vienna), Austria, 16-18 November 2022

• HEX Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience Seminar Series, Tampere University, Finland, 15 November 2022

• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 28-31 October 2022

• Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Seminar Series, University of York, 26 September 2022

• European Association for the History of Human Sciences conference, Sigmund Freud Private University, (former) Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 30 August - 2 September 2022

• Féile an Phobail Festival, Belfast, 8 August 2022

• Victorian Popular Fiction Association Annual Conference: 'Purity and Contamination in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture', Loughborough University, 13-15 July 2022

• School of Psychology Seminar Series, Ulster University, 30 March 2022

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2021

• Families and Health: Historical Perspectives, University of Wolverhampton, 9 November 2021

• Belfast's Hidden Medical History, ESRC Festival, Sunflower Public House, Belfast, 5 November 2021

• Life and Death in the Asylum, c.1840-1970, Riverside Theatre, Coleraine, 27 October 2021

• Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Joint Meeting, Virtual, 1-2 June 2021

• Weapons, Wounds and Warfare Seminar Series, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 5 May 2021

• Medical Humanities (In)Visibility: Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress, Durham University, 21-23 April 2021

• Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) Annual Conference, Emory University, Georgia, USA, 11-13 March 2021

• Science Society & Hibernian Society Joint Lecture, Harrow School, 15 January 2021

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2020

• Centring Race in History: Antiquity to the Present, European University Institute, Florence/Liverpool Hope University, 23-25 November 2020

 

2019

• History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ireland Network: Annual Conference, Ulster University, 18-20 October 2019

• European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (annual conference): Sense and Nonsense, University of Birmingham, 27-30 August 2019 

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2018

• ‘The Disease of Caring’: Medical Professionals and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Birkbeck, University of London, 26 October 2018

• The Gut/Brain Axis: Cultural and Historical Perspectives, University of Glasgow, 4-5 May 2018

 

2017

• Gut Health Workshop, University of Glasgow, 3 November 2017

• Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Seminar Series, University of Strathclyde, 1 November 2017

• Stendahl Festival of Art Limavady, Northern Ireland, 12-13 August 2017

• Northern Ireland Forum for Ethics in Medicine and Healthcare, Queen's University Belfast, 11 May 2017

• Diet and Nutrition in Institutions of Care, University of Warwick, 20-21 April 2017

• The Maze Prison Hunger Strikes: 35th Anniversary, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester, 25 January 2017

 

2016 

• Incarcerated Bodies, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 13 October 2016

• Rethinking the 1981 Long Kesh/Maze Hunger Strike: 35 Years On, University of Notre Dame Global Gateway, London Campus, 27 June 2016

• Balancing the Self in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, 22-23 June 2016

• Dietary Innovation and Disease in the 19th and 20th Centuries, San Servolo Island, Venice, 8-10 June 2016

• Hunger Striking and Conflict Resolution, Ulster University, 30 May 2016

• Prisoner Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland and Palestine: Examining the Long-Term Effects Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, Queen’s University Belfast, 9 May 2016

• Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Birkbeck, University of London, 15-16 April 2016

• Suffragettes: One Hundred Years On, Black Box, Belfast, 14 March 2016

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2015 

• Training Day in Medical Humanities, Queen's University Belfast, 2 December 2015

• HSTM Network Ireland Inaugural Conference, Maynooth University, 10-12 November 2015

• Suffragette Legacies, People's History Museum, Manchester, 7 November 2015

• Gruelling Ordeals: Diets of the Irish Urban Poor 1845-1950, Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast, 12 October 2015

• Medical Ethics and Hunger Strike Management: Historical and Modern Perspectives, Ulster University, 20 January 2015

• Food, Hunger and Conflict: Second Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 16-17 January 2015

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2014

• Understanding Institutional and Residential Welfare and Public Health in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Britain, Queen’s University Belfast, 28 November 2014

• Society for the Social History of Medicine 2014 Conference: Disease, Health and the State, University of Oxford, 10-12 July 2014

• Irish Urban Spaces in the Nineteenth Century: Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast, 26-27 June 2014

• History of Irish Childhood Conference St Patrick’s College, Dublin, 9-10 June 2014

• Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine Seminar Series, Universität Zürich, 29 April 2014

• Grave Matters: Death and Dying in Dublin, 1500-2000, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, 12 April 2014

• Edwardian Premonitions and Echoes: Second Annual Conference of the Edwardian Culture, Network University of Liverpool, 10-11 April 2014

• Food and the First World War Workshop, Liverpool Hope University, 2 April 2014

• History of Medicine in Practice, Uppsala Universitet, 26-28 March 2014

• Galls and Guts: Entrails and Digestion in the Long Eighteenth Century Workshop, Université Paris Diderot, 21-22 March 2014

• The Suffragette Legacy in Manchester, People’s History Museum, Manchester, 8 March 2014

• Women on the Edge: International Women’s Day Research Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 7 March 2014

• School of English and History Seminar Series, Ulster University, 27 February 2014

• Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series, Trinity College, Dublin, 12 February 2014

• Ireland and the First World War: In Defence of Right, of Freedom and of Religion?, University College Cork, 24-25 January 2014

 

2013

• Inaugural Conference of the Irish Centre for the Histories of Labour and Class: Class, Conflict and Culture National University of Ireland, Galway, 21-22 November 2013

• Training Day in Medical Humanities, Queen's University Belfast, 7 November 2013

• Memory and Trauma: The Body in Pain in Irish Culture Boston College, Dublin, 12-13 September 2013

• Food in History: Anglo-American Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 11-13 July 2013

• Institutions: History Lab Annual Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, 12-13 June 2013

 

2012

• Medicine, Health and Irish Experiences of War, 1914-45, University College Dublin, 6-7 September 2012

• 1912: Irish Women before the Revolution, Mater Dei Institute of Education (Dublin City University), 25 May 2012

• Deviance in Modern Irish History, University of Limerick, 31 March 2012

• International Women’s Day Lecture, Dublin Central Library, 7 March 2012

• Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, 2 February 2012

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2011

• St Luke’s Day Symposium, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 3 November 2011

• Consumption and Standards of Living since the Eighteenth Century: Economic History Society and Social History Society Joint Autumn Workshop, University of Huddersfield, 15 September 2011

• Health in History: The Eightieth Anglo-American Conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 29 June-1 July 2011

• Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Conference, Ulster University, 26-27 May 2011

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2010

• Women’s History Association of Ireland Seminar Series, Queen’s University Belfast, 3 December 2010

• Whither the History of Nineteenth-Century Medicine?, University of Manchester, 21 May 2010

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2009

• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 2 June 2009

• Exploring the Somato-Psychic Workshop, University College London, 15 May 2009

• Social History of Medicine Postgraduate Conference, University College Dublin, 16-18 April 2009

• Perspectives on the Past: History and Classics Conference, University of Manchester, 26-27 March 2009

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2008

• Northern Centre for the History of Medicine Seminar Series, University of Durham, 25 November 2008

• Workshop on the Relationship between History of Medicine and Epidemiology Institute for General Practice and Community Medicine, Oslo, 18 November 2008

• Bardhan Research and Education Trust Research Day, Rotherham General Hospital, 30 October 2008

• Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, University of Glasgow, 3-5 September 2008

• British History of Science “Three Societies” Conference Keble College, University of Oxford, 4-6 July 2008

• History of Medicine Research Student Conference, University College London, 19-20 June 2008

• Health and Welfare Symposium: Classification, Identification and the Body, University of Cambridge, 13 June 2008

• Royal Irish Academy History of Science in Ireland Workshop, Trinity College, Dublin, 14 March 2008

• British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, University of Leeds, 3-5 January 2008

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2007

• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Lunchtime Seminar Series, University of Manchester, 5 June 2007

• Second Meeting of Postgraduate Students in History of Science, Universitat de Barcelona, 31 May-2 June 2007