February – November 2013: PI for AHRC ‘Care for the Future’ Exploratory Award for project entitled ‘The First World War in the Classroom: Teaching and the Construction of Cultural Memory’. Award value: £29,933. [Co-I: Dr Ann-Marie Einhaus, Northumbria University].
July 2012 – June 2013: British Academy Small Research Grant for project entitled ‘War, Politics, and Military Reputation: the 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) divisions and the Battle of the Somme, 1916.’
Sept – Dec 2011: An Foras Feasa/NUI, Maynooth Visiting Fellow.
June 2011: Allocation Grantee at the ESF Humanities Spring Forum 2011 on ‘Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities’ hosted by NUI, Maynooth, Ireland.
2010: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
2008 onwards: External Associate of the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College, Dublin.
2006-7: Junior Visiting Research Scholar at the Modern European History Research Centre and Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford.
2006-7: R.H.S. Centenary Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, London. Award value: £10,000.
2006: Travel bursary from the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France. Award value : €3,500.
2005: Summer Research Grant from the Grace Lawless Lee Fund, Trinity College, Dublin. Award value: €2,000.
2003-6: R.B. McDowell-Ussher Fellowship from the Trinity Trust Association, Trinity College, Dublin. Award value: approx. €51,000.