academy for irish cultural heritages - Research - University of Ulster

Qualifications
She studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland for an honours degree in English Literature and graduated
from there in 2000. She then moved on to Queen’s University Belfast to complete a Master’s degree in Irish Writing
(2001) and a Ph.D. on nineteenth-century Irish writers E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross (2004).
Research Fields
Her main research areas are in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish women’s writing; literary
production and the socio-cultural representation of women’s texts in Ireland and Britain; and legal, technological
and literary theories of authorship. She is currently working on a monograph of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross
for publication with Cork University Press (2008), and her most recent journal publications have focussed on issues
of law and authorship.
Prof Greta Jones
Greta Jones is a member of the history department. She has taught at Jordanstown since 1976 and before then was
a research associate at the University of Leicester
Qualifications
Greta Jones has an honours degree in Medieval and Modern History from University College London and a Ph.D
from the London School of Economics. Her Ph.D became the book Social Darwinism and English Thought published
by Harvester in 1980 and was the key to the award of a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania 1982-3.
During this time she completed the book Social Hygiene in Twentieth Century Britain ( Croom Helm 1986) Greta
also held the Morris Ginsberg Fellowship at the London School of Economics in 1986. This allowed her to finish
Science Politics and the Cold War (Routledge 1988). She was visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College Cambridge in
1990. She has been a member of the editorial board of Social History of Medicine published by Oxford University
Press and the holder of several grants from the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine.
Research Fields
Greta’s primary research interests are in nineteenth century cultural and intellectual history , particularly
Darwinism and in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century science and medicine. She has recently been
awarded a grant , in conjunction with University College Dublin, from the Wellcome Trust to set up a centre for the
history of medicine in Ireland. This will involve a five year programme of appointments and activities to promote
the subject.. Her most recent work in the history of medicine in Ireland is a study of medical migration to and from
Ireland 1860-1960.
Dr William Kelly
Dr Kelly was born in Derry in 1954 and attended St Columb’s College, Trinity College Dublin and the University of
Cambridge. He has worked for the Royal Historical Society, and the University of Ulster.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge
B.A. (Hons) in Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
Winner of the Cluff Memorial Prize
Research Fields
Dr Kelly’s primary research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. Dr Kelly is Managing Editor of
the translation of the Commentarius Rinuccinianus, the papal nuncio’s account of his time in Ireland between 1645-
1649 and is one of the key sources for the study of early modern Ireland and Britain and diplomatic relationships
with Europe. Dr Kelly also manages the translation of the Historia, another key source for the history of Ireland in
the mid-seventeenth century. Both projects are funded by the Department of Arts Sport & Tourism in the Republic
of Ireland. As Assistant Director of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies he is particularly interested in the role of
the Scots in Ulster in the seventeenth century.
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