University College Cork

I am a graduate of UCC and, following completion of my PhD in Medieval History, I was Co-ordinator of the Heritage Project at the National Print Museum in Dublin from 2009–2011. I then worked for one year with a religious congregation in London on a major biographical project concerning their nineteenth-century foundress; I have written about this experience in 'Writing history with Female Religious Communities: Medieval and Modern Hagiography' (Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 111.444, 2022).

In 2012, I was awarded the NUI Dr Garret FitzGerald Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, which I held at the University of Galway. In 2015, I moved to the Department of History at the University of Sheffield. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021.

I am Principal Investigator of Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON) which runs from 2022–2026.

My book Bede and Time: computus, theology and history in the early medieval world (Routledge: London and New York, 2020) won the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021.

My research interests centre on: Time reckoning (Computus) and Chronology in the Middle Ages; Gender and Women; the writing of History; and Digital approaches to studying the past, especially Network Science and Social Network Analysis.

In 2022, I was awarded an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate grant for Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON). The project's overarching aim is to integrate gender into a re-evaluation of time and chronology in medieval sources and modern historiography.

From 2018–2021, I was Co-Investigator on the research project Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Sheffield. I was Co-Investigator on the Digital Edgeworth Network funded by the 'UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking Programme' and jointly based at Cork and Oxford, from 2020–2021.

My teaching interests have developed from my research agenda, and I contribute to several of the department's core undergraduate modules and postgraduate programmes. I am committed to embedding digital skills and digital literacy in the classroom, and to integrating questions concerning gender and under-represented groups into the curriculum.