About Robyn

Dr Robyn Atcheson is a social historian & history communicator living and working in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Robyn teaches and writes on social history, the social history of medicine and women’s history in Britain and Ireland from the early modern period to the nineteenth century.

Her specialist research interests lie in the history of poor relief and public health in nineteenth-century Belfast. She completed her PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2017 on this topic. In 2015 she won the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Research Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Robyn has over a decade of experience in teaching, lecturing and public speaking alongside her research and writing skills. She also consults on a range of public history projects.