PhD research
Find out more about our current PhD students and their research topics.
Stefan Bishop
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“Women’s experiences during the Irish Revolutionary Period in County Kerry and their struggle for recognition.”
Rebecca Boast
Postgraduate Research Student
hsrboast@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
“Stigma in the Irish Abortion Debate: An Exploration of Shaming, Rhetoric and the Rights of the Irish Female.”
Paddy Brennan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“Consumption and Self-Starvation in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Irish Fiction.”
Andrew Foster
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Home away from heresy: English and Irish nuns in exile in the seventeenth century."
Keith Hennessy
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Accelerate Mercilessly: A Reassessment of The Life and Writing of James Hanley."
Ségdae Richardson-Read (they/them)
Postgraduate Research Student
Segdae.Richardson-Read@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
“Seiðr, a practice of transformation: Gender fluidity in performance and perception.”
Ian Redmond Russell
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Contextualising Woodstown: An analysis of a 9th – 10th century Viking Longphort in Ireland."
Ross Wilson
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“'Conditional Support for Irish Unification: A Q-Methodology Study.”