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Accepting PhD Students
I am an Associate Professor in History and an Associate Member of the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
I joined Northumbria University in 2017, having previously held the EHS Eileen Power Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research and research positions at the universities of Oxford and Hull. My research interests include gender and small business ownership, bankruptcy, and the law. I am the author of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy (2016), co-editor of Women and the Land 1500-1900 (2019) and have several articles on women's interaction with legal and financial institutions. Together with Dr Catherine Bishop (Macquarie University, Sydney), I co-edited Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective (2020) and co-founded ReWOMEN (Researching Women of Management and Enterprise Network).
I am currently working on three research projects:
In 2023/24, I am convening modules including the Foundation Year ‘Humanities Skills Portfolio’ and ‘The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in History and Memory’ (final year BA). Together with Dr Helen Rutherford (Northumbria Law School), I am also leading the ‘Law Pathway’ in the Your Graduate Future module (second year BA), with external partners The National Archives and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. I was nominated for a Student Led Teaching Award in 2022, and in 2023 received the Student Led Teaching Award for 'Outstanding Staff Member for Arts, Design and Social Science'.
Current PhD supervision includes:
Abby Hammond, The Women in the Ledger Stones: New Histories at Newcastle Cathedral (funded by an AHRC NBCDTP CDA award)
Kerri Armstrong, Crime, Conviction and Rehabilitation: Women and the Criminal Justice System in the Late Nineteenth Century England, (funded by a Northumbria Research Development Fund award)
I welcome enquiries about postgraduate study in economic, social, gender and legal history in nineteenth century Britain and the wider world.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
History, PhD
12 Oct 2012 → 31 Dec 2099
Award Date: 12 Oct 2012
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Helen Rutherford (Speaker) & Jennifer Aston (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk