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

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
Supervisors: Peter Gray and John Turner
Email: sbrown583@qub.ac.uk
Áine Doran

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
Supervisors: Alan Fernihough and John Turner
Email: adoran13@qub.ac.uk
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.
Supervisors: Gareth Campbell and John Turner
Email: aine.gallagher@qub.ac.uk
Supervisors: Gareth Campbell and John Turner
Email: aine.gallagher@qub.ac.uk
Edwin Koenck

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
Supervisors: William Quinn and John Turner
Email: ekoenck01@qub.ac.uk
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.
Supervisors: Alan de Bromhead and Graham Brownlow
Email: oparker01@qub.ac.uk
Supervisors: Alan de Bromhead and Graham Brownlow
Email: oparker01@qub.ac.uk
Sweta Pramanick

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
Supervisors: Philip Fliers, John Turner and Rebecca Stuart
Email: spramanick01@qub.ac.uk
Kyle Richmond

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
Supervisors: Chris Colvin, Graham Brownlow and Stephen Billington
Email: krichmond01@qub.ac.uk
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.
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and Chris Colvin
Email: psingh05@qub.ac.uk
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and Chris Colvin
Email: psingh05@qub.ac.uk
Kevin Van Mencxel

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
Supervisors: Marc Deloof and Jan Annaert
Email: kevin.vanmencxel@uantwerpen.be
Ian Webster

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
Supervisors: Michael Aldous and John Turner
Email: iwebster01@qub.ac.uk
Paul Winfree

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
Supervisors: Chris Colvin and John Turner
Email: pwinfree01@qub.ac.uk