Dr. Marnie Hay

My research interests include: the history of children and childhood (including adolescence), the history of nationalism, the Irish cultural revival (including the northern branch of this revival), the Irish revolution, Irish and British youth culture, Northern Ireland, and the Irish in Canada.

I teach modules on modern Irish history, the history of children and childhood (including adolescence), and research methods for the historian. I believe that my role as a university teacher is to lead and facilitate a learning community. I provide the framework for learning by producing the module outline, reading list, lectures, assessment tasks and feedback, and serving as the chairperson of classroom discussions. Where possible, I like to set a variety of oral, written and team assessment tasks to give students with differing abilities a chance to shine and to help them to prepare for future careers that may require a capacity for collaboration and public speaking. To facilitate learning outside of the classroom, I try to include field trips when time and circumstances permit. I focus not only on teaching history, but also helping students to develop the transferable research, writing and oral communication skills to succeed in their degree programme as well as their future careers.