About
Dr Urquhart is a graduate of the Queen's University of Belfast and a former postdoctoral fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's.
She is the author of The Ladies of Londonderry: women and political patronage, 1800-1959 as well as Women in Irish Politics, 1890-1940: A History Not Yet Told. She is also the co-editor of Coming into the Light: The Work, Politics and Religion of Women in Ulster, 1840-1940, The Irish Women's History Reader and Irish Women's History. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr Urquhart worked as a researcher for the Women's History Project where she contributed to an online resource of sources for Irish Women's History and edited the minutes of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and Executive Committee, 1911-40.
Prizes or Honours
- Elected to University Senate, 2009-12 (University of Liverpool, 2011)
- Invited to be historical consultant (Eileen Mahon, solicitor representing the above, 2007)
- Invited to contribute article on 1950s feminism to edited collection being produced by Irish Academi (Editor of collection, 2007)
- Invitation to speak (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, 2006)
- Invitation to speak (Prof. Mary O'Dowd, 2006)
- Selected for inclusion in edited conference proceedings (R. Swift and C. Kinealy, editors, 2005)
- Invited to contribute article to edited collection on Irish suffrage movement (M. Ward and L. Ryan, editors: Irish Academic Press, publisher, 2005)
- Invited to contribute article to retrospective of 10 years of Irish feminist publishing (Centre for Women's Studies University College Galway, 2005)
Funded Fellowships
- Fellowship (Royal Historical Society, 2011)