Professor Oonagh Walsh
Professor of Gender Studies
Department of Social Sciences
Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA in History and English and PhD in Modern Irish history) and Nottingham University (MA in American Studies), Oonagh Walsh taught at LSU College, Southampton, Aberdeen University and University College Cork before being appointed as Professor of Gender Studies at Glasgow Caledonian in 2012.
Her principal research interests lie in gender and medical histories, and in the 19th-century history of Irish psychiatry in particular. She has published on a range of areas in modern Irish history, including Protestant women’s social, political and cultural experiences, the development of the asylum system in the west of Ireland, and 20th-century obstetrics.
She is currently finalising a report on symphysiotomy for the Department of Health (Ireland), and a monograph on the Irish asylum system in the 19th-century west of Ireland.
She is in the early stages of two distinct research projects: the first relates to health and illness amongst Irish sailors in the Royal Navy, and the second is a study of possible epigenetic change as a result of the Great Famine.