Dr. Susie Deedigan

ARINS Programme Manager

Dr. Susie Deedigan is Programme Manager for the ARINS Project. Based in Belfast with the KNI's collaborator institute, the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University of Belfast, she manages activities, events, and research relating to the ARINS project and liaises closely with the project partner institution, the Royal Irish Academy.

She obtained her PhD in History in 2024 from Queen’s University, Belfast. Her doctoral research examined female political imprisonment across the island of Ireland during the Second World War. During her doctoral training she was awarded a visiting student fellowship at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley. Prior to this, she read History (BA Hons) at Balliol College, Oxford before gaining an MPhil in Modern Irish History from Trinity College, Dublin.

She has lectured on twentieth-century Irish and European history and taught widely. Her broader research interests include gender, imprisonment, activism and labour. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Women’s History Association of Ireland, is a member of the Irish Association for Professional Historians and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She also holds a PGCE in English and previously taught at Secondary and FE level. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked for several years in QUB Special Collections and Archives, including as a research assistant on the Modern Political Collections Project curating collections related to the Northern Ireland conflict and peace.

Contact
Email: sdeediga@nd.edu