Tom Marshall

An Ethnography of Researchers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Tom Marshall is an anthropology PhD candidate.  His research focuses on qualitative researchers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them and their projects.  Tom’s research will consider how postgraduate students and lecturers have adapted and experimented with their research because of the coronavirus pandemic.  His PhD is funded by the Department for the Economy, Northern Ireland.  Tom is also an Associate Editor for the Irish Journal of Anthropology, and co-editor of its newsletter, EthnoGraph.

Tom completed his MA at Queen’s University.  His research was conducted with the Indian Community Centre in Belfast, where he explored Hindu communities and their affective place-making.

Tom trained as a nurse and worked in the neuro-surgery and neuro-radiology departments at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.  He previously lived in India for a year where he worked with a small-scale community health and youth project.