Dr Ruth Duffy is a Research Fellow in the School of Arts, English, and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast, where she works with Dr Alison Garden on her UKRI Future Leaders funded project ‘Acts of Union: Mixed Marriage in Modern Ireland’. Ruth is a historian of medical and oral history. Her expertise lies in modern British and Irish history: the Troubles, medicine, Irish society and culture. Ruth received her PhD, which focused on the experiences of the health service during the Northern Ireland Troubles, in 2021. Her PhD was awarded the Adele Dalsimer Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2022 and the Ulster University Outstanding Thesis Prize. Dr Duffy’s first monograph, based on this multiple prize-winning PhD research, is under contract with Liverpool University Press