Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) History & Heritage and the BA (Hons) Creative Visual Practice.
Away from UCM, Catriona is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Chester, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and was Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal, Vernacular Architecture. In 2023 Catriona was interviewed on CBS' 60 Minutes current affairs programme.
When I’m not working, I love to spend time with my dog, Luna. She’s a cheeky little brown Cockapoo who loves going for walks in the woods and to the beach. Luckily, she also loves a good snuggle on the sofa!
Background
- Catriona graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 with a PhD in Celtic and Scottish Studies.
- In 2008, she moved to the Isle of Man to take up a position as Lecturer at the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Manx Studies.
- In 2014, Catriona was appointed Lecturer in History at UCM where she developed the undergraduate History & Heritage degree which is validated by the University of Chester.
- With a passion for Manx culture and heritage, Catriona was a Trustee of Manx National Heritage (MNH), representing MNH on the Board of Culture Vannin, between 2012 and 2022.
Professional and Scholarly Activity
Catriona's research interests centre around social history, heritage and vernacular architecture. Her studies cover the 19th and 20th centuries, with a geographical focus on the Celtic fringe, particularly Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man. She is currently working with colleagues from the Oxford Brookes and Edge Hill universities on a Culture Vannin-funded project to explore the role of women in Manx politics. Catriona is also working with a colleague in Canada on a project exploring the Isle of Man Government’s role in the revitalisation of Manx Gaelic since the 1980s.
Catriona presented a paper at the 2022 Research Festival which you can view below:
View Catriona's presentation Tenants & Landlords; Reform and Resistance in the Scottish Hebrides below:
Selected publications
Forthcoming) with P. J. Davey, A. Johnson, P. Tutt, and N. G. Crowe, ‘Landscape and the Built Environment’, in M. Hoy and T. Thornton (eds) A New History of the Isle of Man 1405-1830 – Volume 4B: Social and Economic History.
(Forthcoming) ‘Folklore’ in M. Hoy and T. Thornton (eds) A New History of the Isle of Man 1405-1830 – Volume 4B: Social and Economic History.
(Forthcoming) ‘The Isle of Man’ in M. Vellinga (ed.) Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury Academic.
(Forthcoming) ‘The Scottish Highlands’ in M. Vellinga (ed.) Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd edition, London: Bloomsbury Academic.
(2018) ‘The Island in Context’, Context 153, Institute of Historic Building Conservation, 28-30.
(2018) ‘Island of Architecture’, Context 153, Institute of Historic Building Conservation, 31-32.
(2014) ‘Social reform and segregation: Tenant housing in the Isle of Lewis’, Vernacular Architecture 45:1, 54-66.
(2014) ‘Crossing the threshold: Negotiating space in the vernacular houses of the Isle of Lewis’, The Archaeological Journal, 171, 315-42.
(2013) ‘The bed-alcove tradition in Ireland and Scotland: Reappraising the evidence’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C, 113, 309-40.
(2013) with L. Pike, ‘Gaelic language and lexicography’, in M. Mulhearn and A. Fenton (eds) Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Vol. 1, Edinburgh: John Donald, 485-504.
(2013) ‘Open-air museums, authenticity and the shaping of cultural identity: An example from the Isle of Man’, in C. Dalglish (ed.) Archaeology, the Public, and the Recent Past, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 13-34. Reprinted in Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society 12:4 (2014), 627-49.