University College Cork

Consultant on the two-part series on Irish Psychiatry broadcast by RTE in 2011

Historical consultant on the permanent exhibition mounted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the closure of the West Cork Railway.

Commission by Department of Health to write report on the practice of symphysiotomy in 20th century Ireland

• Hosted an international conference on ‘The Epidemic in Modern History’ at UCC on November 6th and 7th, 2009. The conference attracted over 30 speakers from the USA, Continental Europe and Ireland.

• Hosted annual Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland conference at UCC on June 17th and 18th, 2010. This meeting, on the theme of ‘Philanthropy’, included papers on science, medicine and health. Conference volume published by Four Courts Press in 2014.

• Establishment of the Consortium for Medical Humanities in March, 2010. The consortium comprises research active academics with interests in medical humanities and the history of medicine from University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Limerick.

• Organisation of a workshop in Medical Humanities at UCC on November 9th, 2010.

• With Lewis Glucksman Gallery helped organise a joint exhibition entitled ‘Public Exposure: disfigurement and disease in art and media’.
• Hosted international conference on 'Medical Identities: Patients and Professionals, July 2012, which attracted 70 national and international delegates.

• Conference papers delivered while Senior Research Fellow in Medical History, University College Cork include:

• 'The Dangerous Lunatics Act and the Misrepresentation of Violence in 19th Century Ireland', Society for the Study of19th Century Ireland conference, Northumbria University, June 2013. 

• Intellectual Disability and the Irish Asylums', annual conference of the Association of Medical Humanities, University of Leicester, July 2011

• ‘District Asylums in Ireland’ at the ‘Cultures of Institutional Care Workshop’ from the ESRC funded Welfare Regimes under the Irish Poor Law, 1850-1921 project, December 5th, 2008.

• ‘Power and the Irish Lunatic Asylums’ at the 29th Irish Conference of Historians on ‘Power and History’ at the University of Limerick on June 14th, 2009.

• ‘Imperial Institutions: The District Asylum System in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’ at the ‘Ends of Empire’ conference at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth conference, June 18-20th, 2009.

• ‘Scientific discourse in nineteenth-century Irish psychiatry: cause or effect?’ at the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Conference on Science and Technology in Nineteenth Century Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy, July 2nd and 3rd, 2009.

• ‘Mental Health and Public Health in Ireland’ at the Association for Medical Humanities Conference, ‘Taking the Body Seriously’ Conference, Durham University, 6th – 8th July, 2009.

• ‘Plus  ça change….Irish District Asylum Management in the Early Twentieth Century’ at the Psychiatry, Politics and Society Symposium, University College Dublin, December 4th, 2009.

• ‘Gender and Asylums: the Irish Case’ at the ‘Cradle to the Grave’ workshop at the University of Limerick, March 19th, 2010.

• ‘Selfish Charity’ at the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland conference at UCC on June 17th and 18th, 2010.