Research Associates

Research Associates are members who are faculty and researchers based at Queen's University Belfast.

Robin Adams

Robin Adams (DPhil, Oxford) is Research Fellow in Economic History at Queen's. His research interests include the careers of business elites and, separately, the economic history of modern Ireland. He is working on the Leverhulme-funded project 'The rise of corporate titans: CEOs in the UK, 1900–2016'.
Email: r.adams@qub.ac.uk

Michael Aldous

Michael Aldous (PhD, LSE) is Senior Lecturer in Management at Queen's. His research interests are in the field of business history, particularly issues of business ownership, organization and governance in international business.
Email: m.aldous@qub.ac.uk

Matthias Blum

Matthias Blum (PhD, Tübingen) is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's, and Policy Advisor at the German Medical Association, Berlin. His research interests are health and development economics, agricultural and resource economics, and economic history. He is also interested in pedagogy in economic history.
Email: matthias.blum@baek.de

Graham Brownlow

Graham Brownlow (PhD, QUB) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's. His research focuses primarily on the economic history of Northern Ireland, and institutional and evolutionary economics. He also has an interest in methodology in economic and business history.
Email: graham.brownlow@qub.ac.uk

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Economic History at Queen's. His work mostly focuses on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and in environmental economic history.
Email: b.m.campbell@qub.ac.uk

Gareth Campbell

Gareth Campbell (PhD, QUB) is Professor of Finance at Queen's. His research focuses on historical asset price bubbles and financial crises, particularly the British Railway Mania of the 1840s.
Email: gareth.campbell@qub.ac.uk

Chris Colvin

Chris Colvin (PhD, LSE) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's and Co-Director of QUCEH. He is an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics and demographic change. He is also interested in pedagogy in economic history.
Email: chris.colvin@qub.ac.uk

Christopher Coyle

Christopher Coyle (PhD, QUB) is Senior Lecturer in Finance at Queen's. His research analyses the UK corporate bond market from a historical perspective, including the role played by credit rating agencies.
Email: c.coyle@qub.ac.uk

James Davis

James Davis (PhD, Cambridge) is Reader in Medieval History at Queen's. His research interests focus upon medieval social and economic history, particularly medieval English towns, markets and trade.
Email: james.davis@qub.ac.uk

Alan de Bromhead

Alan de Bromhead (DPhil, Oxford) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's. His research interests are in economic history, political economy and globalisation.
Email: a.debromhead@qub.ac.uk

Arcangelo Dimico

Arcangelo Dimico (PhD, Nottingham) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's. His main research interest is sources of divergences in income across countries and groups, with a particular focus on the effect that history has on institutions and economic growth.
Email: a.dimico@qub.ac.uk

Alan Fernihough

Alan Fernihough (PhD, UCD) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's. His research interests include economic history, demography and economic growth.
Email: a.fernihough@qub.ac.uk

Philip Fliers

Philip Fliers (PhD, Erasmus Rotterdam) is Lecturer in Finance at Queen's. His research interests are banking history, corporate finance and financial crises. He is working on the Leverhulme-funded project 'The rise of corporate titans: CEOs in the UK, 1900–2016'. He also works on the financial history of the Netherlands.
Email: p.fliers@qub.ac.uk

David Jordan

David Jordan (PhD, QUB) is a Research Fellow in Economic History at Queen's. He is researching the economics of devolution, asking whether devolution of economic policy-making powers is beneficial, by drawing lessons from the first Northern Ireland Parliament between 1920 and 1972.
Email: d.jordan@qub.ac.uk

Ryan Kee

Ryan Kee (PhD, QUB) is Lecturer (Education) in Economics at Queen's. He researches long-run economic development and is especially interested in the impact of culture and religion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Email: ryan.kee@qub.ac.uk

Frank Kennedy

Frank Kennedy (PhD, LSE) is Research Assistant in Economic History at Queen's. He is working on the ESRC-funded project ‘The Sterling Area Revisited'. Prior to recent academic study, he had a 25-year career in international debt capital markets in the City of London.
Email: francis.kennedy@qub.ac.uk

Liam Kennedy

Liam Kennedy (PhD, York) is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at Queen's. He mainly works on topics in Irish economic and social history.
Email: l.kennedy@qub.ac.uk

Martin Quinn

Martin Quinn (PhD, Dundee) is Professor of Accounting at Queen's. His research interests are in accounting and business history, particularly of the brewing sector, and in accounting change over time.
Email: martin.quinn@qub.ac.uk

William Quinn

Will Quinn (PhD, QUB) is Lecturer in Finance at Queen's. He researches bubbles and crashes in history, especially the British bicycle mania of the 1890s. He is also interested in causes of stock price movements in nineteenth-century Britain.
Email: w.quinn@qub.ac.uk

David Paulson

David Paulson (PhD, Cambridge) is Professor of Practice at Queen's. His research concerns the business history of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Britain and West Germany.
Email: d.paulson@qub.ac.uk

Milan Pajic

Milan Pajic (PhD, Ghent and Strasbourg) is Lecturer in Medieval History at Queen's. His research focuses on migration of artisans between continental Europe and England in the Late Middle Ages. He is also interested in the broader questions surrounding the evolution of the occupational structure.
Email: m.pajic@qub.ac.uk

Emma Reisz

Emma Reisz (PhD, Cambridge) is Lecturer in Imperial and Asian History at Queen's. Her research focuses on commodities and trade in Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and she is joint-PI of the Sir Robert Hart Project.
Email: emma.reisz@qub.ac.uk

Rebecca Stuart

Rebecca Stuart (PhD, UCD) is Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen's. She is currently based at the University of Neuchâtel, on leave from the Monetary Policy Division of the Central Bank of Ireland. Her research focus is on monetary and financial history, monetary economics and macroeconomics.
Email: rebecca.j.stuart@gmail.com

John Turner

John Turner (PhD, QUB) is Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen's and Co-Director of QUCEH. He has research interests in banking and financial history, and in law and finance.
Email: j.turner@qub.ac.uk

Clive Walker

Clive Walker (PhD, QUB) is Lecturer in Finance at Queen's. He researches the nature and role of media in financial crises, both historical and contemporary.
Email: c.walker@qub.ac.uk