Dr Anna Walsh is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher with an interest in the narratives of ordinary lives and the history and sociology of the Liverpool City Region. She is also interested in visual and material cultures; migration; British and Irish contemporary history; civic buildings and urbanism. Her current research is around the mechanics of Wirral’s branding as a tourist destination in the 1980s.
Originally a teacher in further education, in 2020 Anna completed a PhD in the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool, which was an oral history of Irish migration to Leeds in the post-war period. She has worked on local research projects around media sustainability and science denialism at Edge Hill University and the University of Liverpool, as well as conducting research here at the Heseltine Institute on the St Helens localities project.
She has provided advice to local and national Irish migrant organisations, is a fellow of the Oral History Summer Institute at Columbia University, and sits on the specialist historians’ panel for Dublin City Council. She has written for the Irish Studies Review, French Journal of Irish Studies, History Today and Irish Historical Studies. Her research has featured in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent.
Anna currently works as a Teaching Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University.
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