About
Clare studied at St Andrews and Cambridge. She worked as a research scholar in Dublin and as a lecturer in Celtic and History in Aberdeen before starting at Liverpool in 2010. Her publications have focused on Viking Age history and contact across the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages. Her most recent book 'Medieval Ireland AD400-1500' was published by Cambridge University Press. She is currently under contract with Penguin Classics to produce a volume on Viking Age Britain and Ireland.
OFFICE HOURS: I am on research leave in semester one 2024/25
Prizes or Honours
- President of the Viking Society for Northern Research (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2024)
- President of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies (Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 2021)
- Commendation - 'Research Impact of the Year Award 2019' (University of Liverpool, 2020)
- John O'Donovan Scholarship Medal (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004)
Funded Fellowships
- Visiting Lecturer (University of Utrecht, 2009)