Research Students

Research Students are student members who are pursuing research at Queen's University Belfast in an economic history topic.

Hiba Brouksy

Hiba Brouksy is a BSc Finance student at Queen's, where she is working as a research assistant on several financial history projects at QUCEH as part of her placement year. Her post is funded by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), an all-Ireland centre of excellence that combines economic historians at QUB with TCD.
QUB Department: Finance
Supervisors: John Turner and Chris Colvin
Email: [email protected]

Stuart Brown

Stuart Brown (MA, Ulster) is a part-time PhD student in 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.
QUB Department: History
Supervisors: Peter Gray and John Turner
Email: [email protected]

Alessandro Brioschi

Alessandro Brioschi (MSc, Bocconi) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen's, funded by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. His research project investigates apprenticeship and labour markets in late medieval and early modern Northern Italy, particularly the dynamics behind skills acquisition and the consequences on long-term economic growth.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: John Turner and Arcangelo Dimico
Email: [email protected]

Hrick Das

Hrick Das (MSc, QUB) is a PhD student in business and management history. His research examines the historical trajectory of Indian firms expanding into developing markets.
QUB Department: International Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and Kieran Conroy
Email: [email protected]

Áine Gallagher

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.
QUB Department: Finance
Supervisors: Gareth Campbell and John Turner
Email: [email protected]

Tiarnán Heaney

Tiarnán Heaney (MSc, QUB) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen’s. His research is focused on documenting, understanding, and mapping the distribution of all-Ireland socio-economic outcomes and inequality from 1873 to the present day in the context of industrial development, the partition of Ireland, and the Good Friday Agreement.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: Alan Fernihough, David Jordan and Alan de Bromhead
Email: [email protected]

Malte Hinrichs

Malte Hinrichs (MSc, Mannheim) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen's, funded by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. His research focusses on the effects of water power on economic development in early industrial Germany. More broadly, he is interested in the dynamics of the Industrial Revolution and the reasons behind and paths to long-run economic growth.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: Alan Fernihough and Chris Colvin
Email: [email protected]

Elissa Iorgulescu

Elissa Iorgulescu (MSc, Münster) is an external PhD student from the the University of Hohenheim, where she is affiliated with the Chair in Economic and Social History with Agricultural History. She is working on grain futures trading in the interwar period.
QUB Department: Finance
Supervisors: Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer and William Quinn
Email: [email protected]

Edwin Koenck

Edwin B. Koenck (MSc, QMUL) is a part-time PhD student in financial history at Queen's, and a Lecturer in Finance at Ulster University. 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.
QUB Department: Finance
Supervisors: John Turner and Philip Fliers
Email: [email protected]

Yibin Liu

Yibin Liu (BSc, UCL) is a PhD student in economic and financial history at Queen’s, funded by the Centre for Economics, Policy and History. Her research focused on the financial crisis and institutions in Asian economies. She is also interested in industrialization and inequality.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: Chris Colvin and John Turner
Email: [email protected]

Paudie McKee

Paudie McKee (BSc, QUB) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen's. His research focuses on the nationalisation of public houses under the State Management System (1915-1971) in Britain. More broadly he is interested in government policy as it relates to public health.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: David Jordan, Daniel Borbely and Chris Colvin
Email: [email protected]

Oliver Parker

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.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: Graham Brownlow, Alan Fernihough and Alan de Bromhead
Email: [email protected]

Sweta Pramanick

Sweta Pramanick (MSc, Antwerp) is a PhD student in finance 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.
QUB Department: Finance
Supervisors: Philip Fliers, John Turner and Rebecca Stuart
Email: [email protected]

Kyle Richmond

Kyle Richmond (MRes, 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 interested in Irish economic history.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: Chris Colvin, Graham Brownlow and Stephen Billington
Email: [email protected]

Pallavi Singh

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.
QUB Department: International Business, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and Chris Colvin
Email: [email protected]

Constantin Torve

Constantin Torve (MA, Uppsala) is a PhD student in history at Queen's. His research project investigates the adaptation of agrarian secret societies in 19th-century Ireland to changing socio-economic environments, particularly their expansion from agrarian into industrial contexts. He employs methods from digital humanities.
QUB Department: History
Supervisors: Peter Gray and Alan Fernihough
Email: [email protected]

Rebecca Walton

Rebecca (BSc, QUB) is a PhD student in economic history at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on the Assize of Bread and its ending in Britain after 600 years. Through this policy she will examine the causes of deregulation and its consequences on social welfare and marketisation.
QUB Department: Economics
Supervisors: John Turner, Clive Walker and James Davis
Email: [email protected]