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Research Students

Research Students are members who are pursuing their PhD research at Queen's University Belfast.

Stuart Brown

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Stuart Brown (MA, Ulster) is a PhD student in economic and social history at Queen's. He is re-evaluating the life and success of Alexander Brown, founder of America's first investment bank, in the context of transatlantic Irish Presbyterian merchant networks in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Supervisors: Peter Gray and John Turner
Email: sbrown583@qub.ac.uk

Áine Doran

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Áine Doran (MSc, QUB) is a part-time PhD student in economic history at Queen's, and Teaching Fellow in Economics at Ulster University. She is researching the causes and consequences of the Great Irish Famine. 
Supervisors: Alan Fernihough and John Turner
Email: ​adoran13@qub.ac.uk 

Áine Gallagher

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Áine Gallagher (MSc, Warwick) is a part-time PhD student in financial history at Queen's, and Lecturer (Education) in Finance at Queen’s. Her research is focused on documenting and understanding the long term trends in mergers and acquisitions in the UK from 1875 to the present.
Supervisors: Gareth Campbell and John Turner
Email: ​aine.gallagher@qub.ac.uk

Edwin Koenck

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Edwin B. Koenck (MSc, QMUL) is a part-time PhD student in economic history at Queen's. He is researching the Canal Mania in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, focusing on speculative trading which may have caused a financial bubble.
Supervisors: William Quinn and John Turner
Email: ekoenck01@qub.ac.uk

Oliver Parker

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Oliver Parker (MA, Bayreuth) is a part-time PhD student in economic history at Queen’s. He is researching tariff policy and protectionism in Canada and the British Empire during the interwar period.
Supervisors: Alan de Bromhead and Graham Brownlow
Email: oparker01@qub.ac.uk

Sweta Pramanick

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Sweta Pramanick (MSc, Antwerp) is a PhD student in financial history at Queen's. Her research focuses on understanding how productivity and the integration of new innovative technologies have shaped the UK economy during the twentieth century.
Supervisors: Philip Fliers, John Turner and Rebecca Stuart
Email: spramanick01@qub.ac.uk

Kyle Richmond

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Kyle Richmond (BSc, QUB) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen's. He is interested in the links between market structure and innovation within the context of relative British economic decline from the end of WWII and the 1970s. He is also working on the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.
Supervisors: Chris Colvin, Graham Brownlow and Stephen Billington
Email: krichmond01@qub.ac.uk

Pallavi Singh

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Pallavi Singh (MSc, LSE) is a PhD student in business history at Queen's. Focused on exploring the long-term trends in capitalism and entrepreneurship, her research studies the interactions between globalisation and the social ties binding Indian businesses during the years 1857-1970. 
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and Chris Colvin
Email: psingh05@qub.ac.uk

Kevin Van Mencxel

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Kevin Van Mencxel (MSc, Antwerp) is a PhD student in finance at the University of Antwerp, and a visiting research student at Queen's. His research area is financial history, and he is working on corporate bond returns and corporate bond financing in Belgium in the period 1873-1940. 
Supervisors: Marc Deloof and Jan Annaert
Email: ​kevin.vanmencxel@uantwerpen.be

Ian Webster

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Ian Webster (PhD, Sheffield Hallam) is a part-time PhD student in business history at Queen's. His previous PhD, in history, looked at the role of the Public Works Loan Board in the nineteenth century. He is now extending this research to cover the scale and financing of all nineteenth-century English public infrastructure investment. 
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and John Turner
Email: ​iwebster01@qub.ac.uk

Paul Winfree

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Paul Winfree (MSc, LSE) is a part-time PhD student in economic history at Queen's. His research interest is US economic history, especially the history and political economy of US fiscal policy, and the political of the US South during the late-nineteenth century. 
Supervisors: Chris Colvin and John Turner
Email: pwinfree01@qub.ac.uk

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    • MSc Economics
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  • Projects
    • All-Ireland Centre of Excellence
    • Business Performance
    • Productivity Forum
    • Corporate Titans
    • EURHISFIRM
    • Sterling Area Revisited
    • Irish Famine
    • C19th Irish prisoners
    • An Economist's Guide
  • Working Papers
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    • Health Crises 2022
    • Bubblemania 2019
    • Boston 2018
    • FRESH 2017
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    • EurHiStock 2016
    • Globalisation 2016
    • Colloquium 2016
    • Religion 2015
  • Impact
    • COVID-19
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    • Long Run Institute
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  • FRESH
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    • Gothenburg 2022
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