academy for irish cultural heritages - Research - University of Ulster

Previous to joining UU, she was a research fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast,where she developed an online archive of parts of the Somerville and Ross papers held in the Special Collectionslibrary at Queen’s. In 2006 she was appointed Visiting Fellow in the Women’s Studies department at the Universityof Limerick where she worked on the Kate O’Brien archive as part of the department’s ‘Gender, Memory, andModernity’ research group. In 2006 she also organised an exhibition of the Somerville and Ross archive in theVisitors Centre at Queen’s, which ran from October to December, and is due to travel to University College Corkin 2007.QualificationsShe studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for an honours degree in English Literature and graduatedfrom there in 2000. She then moved on to Queen’s University Belfast to complete a Master’s degree in IrishWriting (2001) and a Ph.D. on nineteenth-century Irish writers E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross (2004).Research FieldsHer main research areas are in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish women’s writing; literaryproduction and the socio-cultural representation of women’s texts in Ireland and Britain; and legal, technologicaland literary theories of authorship. She is currently working on a monograph of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Rossfor publication with Cork University Press (2008), and her most recent journal publications have focussed onissues of law and authorship.Prof Greta JonesProf Greta Jones is a member of the history department. She has taught at Jordanstown since 1976 and beforethen was a research associate at the University of LeicesterQualificationsGreta Jones has an honours degree in Medieval and Modern History from University College London and a Ph.Dfrom the London School of Economics. Her Ph.D became the book Social Darwinism and English Thought publishedby Harvester in 1980 and was the key to the award of a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania 1982-3. During this time she completed the book Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain ( Croom Helm 1986)Greta also held the Morris Ginsberg Fellowship at the London School of Economics in 1986. This allowed herto finish Science Politics and the Cold War (Routledge 1988). She was visiting fellow at Corpus Christi CollegeCambridge in 1990. She has been a member of the editorial board of Social History of Medicine published byOxford University Press and the holder of several grants from the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine.Research FieldsGreta’s primary research interests are in nineteenth century cultural and intellectual history , particularly Darwinismand in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century science and medicine. She has recently been awarded agrant , in conjunction with University College Dublin, from the Wellcome Trust to set up a centre for the history ofmedicine in Ireland. This will involve a five year programme of appointments and activities to promote the subject.Her most recent work in the history of medicine in Ireland is a study of medical migration to and from Ireland1860-1960.Dr William KellyDr Kelly was born in Derry in 1954 and attended St Columb’s College, Trinity College Dublin and the Universityof Cambridge. He has worked for the Royal Historical Society, and the University of Ulster.QualificationsPh.D. in History, University of CambridgeB.A. (Hons) in Modern History, Trinity College, DublinWinner of the Cluff Memorial Prize13