Eoin McLaughlin
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Eoin McLaughlin

Senior Lecturer

Department of Economics

University College Cork

Current CV
Biographical information:

My research interests are in economic, financial and social history. Further interests are applied econometrics and historical GIS. I am interested in Irish financial history, the political economy of land reform, penal reform, human capital, anthropometry, cooperation, emigration and remittances.

I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Cork. Prior to this I was a Lecturer in Environmental Economics at the University of St. Andrews. From January 2013 to December 2015 I was a Leverhulme Fellow, see research for project description. I am an affiliate of Environmental Research Institute at UCC, the Queen's University Centre for Economic History, an Honorary Senior Fellow at University of St Andrews, and an Honorary Researcher at the University of Stirling. I am an associate editor at Palgrave Humanities and Social Science Communications.

I completed a BA in economics and history in National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2005. I was awarded a PhD in 2010 by the Department of History in NUI Maynooth. I received an IRCHSS post-graduate scholarship and in 2012 I was awarded an academic prize by the European Savings Bank Group. I was a Post-Doctoral fellow in the University of Edinburgh from January 2011 to August 2014.