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