About Me
Economist, historian & pedagogical reformer
I work at Queen's University Belfast, where I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's Management School and a Research Associate at the university's Centre for Economic History. I am currently on sabbatical leave and based at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam.
I am an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics, and demographic change. My research mostly addresses issues in the business and financial history of the Netherlands, and the economic and social history of Ireland.
I lead a teaching and learning project which aims to re-insert the study of economic history into the economics curriculum. My book, An Economist's Guide to Economic History (co-edited with Matthias Blum), is available in paperback or eBook.
I am an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics, and demographic change. My research mostly addresses issues in the business and financial history of the Netherlands, and the economic and social history of Ireland.
I lead a teaching and learning project which aims to re-insert the study of economic history into the economics curriculum. My book, An Economist's Guide to Economic History (co-edited with Matthias Blum), is available in paperback or eBook.
News
Conferencing news:
I will be presenting a paper on economic history pedagogy (co-authored with Graham Brownlow) at the European Historical Economics Society (Paris, August 2019) and the Developments in Economics Education Conference (Warwick, September 2019).
I will be presenting a paper on economic history pedagogy (co-authored with Graham Brownlow) at the European Historical Economics Society (Paris, August 2019) and the Developments in Economics Education Conference (Warwick, September 2019).
Pedagogy news:
I wrote an op-ed for QPol about the pedagogical motivation behind An Economist's Guide to Economic History, and I was interviewed about the book by Palgrave Macmillan commissioning editor Ruth Noble.
I wrote an op-ed for QPol about the pedagogical motivation behind An Economist's Guide to Economic History, and I was interviewed about the book by Palgrave Macmillan commissioning editor Ruth Noble.
Teaching news:
I will be teaching a brand new module at Queen's called Communicating Economics. The module is for first-year undergraduates, and the first intake will be the Autumn Semester of 2019-2020. I aim to empower students to talk and write coherently and concisely about economics and the economy. Part of this involves learning about good data visualisation.
I will be teaching a brand new module at Queen's called Communicating Economics. The module is for first-year undergraduates, and the first intake will be the Autumn Semester of 2019-2020. I aim to empower students to talk and write coherently and concisely about economics and the economy. Part of this involves learning about good data visualisation.