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    • History
    • Prizes and Awards
    • QUCEH Bookshop
    • Queen's Business School
    • Contact Us
  • Members
    • Research Associates
    • Research Affiliates
    • Research Students
    • Advisory Board
  • Study
    • PhD Economic History
    • PhD Funding
    • Placement History
  • Projects
    • The Great Elevator
    • Centre for Economics, Policy and History
    • Business Performance
    • Corporate Titans
    • Productivity Forum
    • An Economist's Guide
  • Working Papers
    • Working Papers: 2025
    • Working Papers: 2024
    • Working Papers: 2023
    • Working Papers: 2022
    • Working Papers: 2021
    • Working Papers: 2020
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    • Seminars: 2020-2021
  • Workshops
    • PhD Workshop 2025
    • Health Crises 2022
    • Bubblemania 2019
    • Boston 2018
    • FRESH 2017
    • Colloquium 2017
  • Impact
    • CEPH Outreach
    • Long Run Institute
    • Podcasts
    • COVID-19
    • History Now

Placement History of QUCEH Graduates

QUCEH has proved to be successful at placing its PhD researchers in academic and professional posts. A full list of PhD graduates supervised by academics at QUCEH (post-2012) and its predecessor research centre (pre-2012) are listed below.

Elissa Iorgulescu (external student, graduated 2025)
  • Topic: Grain Futures Trading in Chicago During the Interwar Period
  • Placement: Research Associate, Finance Center Münster, University of Munster
Sweta Pramanick (graduated 2025)
  • Topic: Tackling Productivity Questions
  • Placement: Assistant Statistician, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency​
Paul Winfree (graduated 2023)
  • Topic: The political economy of education and propaganda in the U.S. South after the Civil War
  • Current employment: Founder, President and CEO, Economic Policy Innovation Center, Washington DC​
Áine Doran (graduated 2022)
  • Topic: The causes and consequences of the Great Irish Famine
  • Placement: Teaching Fellow in Economics, Ulster University
  • Current employment: Lecturer in Economics, Ulster University
Ian Webster (graduated 2022)
  • Topic: Nineteenth-century English public infrastructure investment
  • Current employment: Retired
David Bogle (graduated 2022)
  • Topic: Insurance over Two Centuries: Asset Management, Shareholder Liability and Regulation
  • Placement: Lecturer (Education) in Financial History, Queen's University Belfast
  • Current employment: Lecturer in Finance, Queen's University Belfast
Homer Wagenaar (graduated 2022)
  • Topic:  Rules, Discretion and Industrialisation: The Patent System of the Netherlands, 1817-1869
  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Groningen
  • Current employment: Economist, Belgian Competition Authority​
Laura Wurm (graduated 2022)
  • Topic: Essays in Speculation and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Placement: Consultant, Deloitte, Vienna
  • Current employment: Research Communication Specialist, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
David Jordan (graduated 2020)
  • Topic: The Economics of Devolution: Evidence from Northern Ireland, 1920-1972
  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University Belfast
  • Current employment: Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
Stephen Billington (graduated 2019)
  • Topic: Patents, Machine Learning, and War: Invention during the British Industrial Revolution
  • Placement: Teaching Fellow in Economics, Ulster University
  • Current employment: Lecturer in Economics, Ulster University
Ryan Kee (graduated 2019)
  • Topic: Topics in Development Economics and Economic History
  • Placement: Lecturer (Education) in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
  • Current employment: Senior Consultant, ADAS
Nikita Lychakov (graduated 2018)
  • Topic: Industrialisation, Politics and Banking Instability in Late Imperial Russia
  • Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
  • Current employment: Research Fellow, Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Russia
Stuart Henderson (graduated 2017)
  • Topic: Historical Reflections on Religion, Finance and Economic Development 
  • Placement: Lecturer in Economics & Finance, Dublin Institute of Technology
  • Current employment: Senior Lecturer in Financial Services, Ulster University
Meeghan Rogers (graduated 2017)
  • Topic: Financing, Past and Present
  • Placement: Assistant Professor in Finance, Pfeiffer University, North Carolina
  • Current employment: Associate Professor in Business Management, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York
Will Quinn (graduated 2016)
  • Topic: The British Bicycle Mania, 1896-1898
  • Placement: Research Fellow in Finance, Queen's University Belfast
  • Current employment: Senior Lecturer in Finance, Queen's University Belfast
Christopher Coyle (graduated 2013)
  • Topic: UK Corporate Bonds Market
  • PhD prize(s): Short-listed for ABH Coleman Prize
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, Ulster University 
  • Current employment: Reader in Finance, Queen's University Belfast
Ying Wang (graduated 2012)
  • Topic: Essays on Cross-Border Mergers
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, University of Northampton
  • Current employment: Director of Research, School of Economics, Finance and Law, Anglia Ruskin University
Clive Walker (graduated 2012)
  • Topic: Media and the Housing Market
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, Queen's University Belfast 
Nadia Vanteeva (graduated 2010)
  • Topic: Corporate Ownership in Russia
  • Placement: Research Fellow, Oxford University
  • Current employment: Academic Associate, Ontario Tech University
Gareth Campbell (graduated 2009)
  • Topic: The British Railway Mania 
  • PhD prizes: Winner of the 2009 EHS New Researcher Prize and short-listed for EBHA PhD Prize 
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, Queen’s University Belfast
  • Current employment: Professor of Finance, Queen's University Belfast
Jodie Carson (graduated 2009)
  • Topic: Growth of the British Insurance Giants 
  • Placement: Economic Adviser, Northern Ireland Assembly
  • Current employment: Professor of Practice, Strategic Policy Unit, Ulster University
Qing Ye (graduated 2009)
  • Topic: The Equity Risk Premium and Anomalies in a Nascent Capital Market
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, Queen’s University Belfast
  • Current employment: Senior Associate Professor in Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Wenwen Zhan (graduated 2009)
  • Topic: Corporate Ownership in China
  • Placement: Research Fellow, Lancaster University
  • Current employment: Research Analyst, China Merchant Securities, HK
Graeme Acheson (graduated 2006)  
  • Topic: Law, Finance and Liability Regimes  
  • PhD prize: Short-listed for ABH Coleman Prize
  • Placement: Lecturer in Finance, Ulster University
  • Current employment: Professor of Finance, University of Strathclyde
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    • History
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  • Members
    • Research Associates
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    • Research Students
    • Advisory Board
  • Study
    • PhD Economic History
    • PhD Funding
    • Placement History
  • Projects
    • The Great Elevator
    • Centre for Economics, Policy and History
    • Business Performance
    • Corporate Titans
    • Productivity Forum
    • An Economist's Guide
  • Working Papers
    • Working Papers: 2025
    • Working Papers: 2024
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    • Working Papers: 2022
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    • Working Papers: 2020
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  • Workshops
    • PhD Workshop 2025
    • Health Crises 2022
    • Bubblemania 2019
    • Boston 2018
    • FRESH 2017
    • Colloquium 2017
  • Impact
    • CEPH Outreach
    • Long Run Institute
    • Podcasts
    • COVID-19
    • History Now