Catriona Edington

BA History Queen's University Belfast 2019-2022, - 1:1.

- Dissertation entitled 'No heir and no spare: Samuel Pepys and male infertility in 17thC England'.

• Highest Scoring Undergraduate Dissertation in History - (92)
• Awarded the Hartford Montgomery Hyde Award for highest aggregate mark in Undergaduate History - 77.

MA History Queen's University Belfast 2022-2023, - Distinction

- Dissertation entitled 'Of men and beavers:  Uses of male castration in early modern England'.

• Awarded the Mary O'Dowd Pirze for gender history

My research looks at the comparison of human and animal fertility responses within the context of early modern England, more specifically in the period between 1538-1798. When assessing this area of reproductive history and its interspecies dynamics, I take a socio-cultural methodolgy and look at what we might call traditional understandings of medicine (or bio-medicine), as well as alternative medicines and lifestyle management responses. 

Worked as a Teaching Assistant on UG modules at Level 1 and Level 2

• HIS:1004 Revolutions
• HIS:2069 Revolution and disaster in early modern Britain and Ireland

Work experience includes acting as a research assistant or interview transcriber for several projects including: 

• Christopher Marsh and Angela McShane's 100 Ballads (awarded American Historical Association's Roy Rozenzweig Prize in 2024) 
• Olivia Dee's Invisible Labour: an oral history of unmarried pregnancy in Northern Ireland 1945-1990
• Leanne McCormick and Sean O'Connell et al 's Truth Recovery Independent Panel