Professor Laura Kelly is a historian of modern Ireland with expertise in gender history, oral history and the social history of medicine. She is currently researching the history of pro-choice and pro-life activism in 1980s and 1990s Ireland.

Dr Niall Whelehan’s research focuses  on themes of migration, political violence, radicalism, and comparative and transnational history, mainly relating to Ireland and the Irish diaspora. He is currently researching a project on Irish migration and settlement in Argentina in the long-nineteenth century.

Dr Fearghus Roulston is Chancellor’s Fellow in the History of Activism at the University of Strathclyde. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Oral History Journal and a fellow of the Royal Historical Soceity. His first book, Belfast Punk and the Troubles: An Oral History, was published by Manchester University Press in 2022.

Dr Martin Mitchell’s teaching and research interests lie in the fields of British History, Scottish History and the history of Irish migration to Scotland. He is the author of New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland and The Irish in the West of Scotland, 1797-1848: Trade Unions, Strikes and Political Movements.

Dr Louise Brangan (Department of Social Work and Social Policy) is a sociologist of punishment, who focuses on the comparative and historical study of punishment, culture and politics. She has written on the contemporary history of Irish and Scottish prisons and the history of Irish criminology. She is currently researching Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.