DrPaul Huddie

Paul Huddie is a historical researcher interested in war and society relative to Britain and Ireland in the long 19c. He is a graduate of UCD (BA, 2008; MA 2009) and Queen's University Belfast (2014), where his PhD was funded by a four-year Higher Education Grant from Dublin City Council. He has held visiting and research fellowships at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada (2025) and Chiba University, Japan (2026), which were funded by the Ireland Canada University Foundation and the Invitation Program for Outstanding Foreign Researchers (J-PEAKS).

He is the author of The Crimean War and Irish Society (2015) and the co-editor of the 2023 special issue of War & Society, New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century (2025) and Military Welfare History since the Eighteenth Century: War and Welfare (2026). His research has also been published in several edited volumes and multiple peer-reviewed journals, including the British Journal for Military History, Women’s History Review, Irish Economic and Social History, and Mariner’s Mirror.

His research has been funded by over two dozen research grants, travel grants and conference support grants, since 2013. These include several grants awarded by each of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Society for Nautical Research, and Society for the Social History of Medicine, and several individual fellowships and awards from the Wellcome Trust, International Society for First World War Studies, and Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France.

Currently, he is pursuing research while also working for as an ERC Research Project Manager at UCD on the ABSOLUTE, ANSOC, CivilWars and AMADEUS projects. He is a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies and the Irish Association of Professional Historians, and the coordinator of both the Military Welfare History Network and the International Network for Crimean War Studies.

Since 2019, as (founder and) coordinator of the international Military Welfare History Network he has brought together nearly 300 researchers from over 180 HEIs in 33 countries around the world, to develop and promote the field of military welfare history; defined as the welfare, care and medical provisions afforded to service personnel, their families and other dependents. He has also organised the first and second Network conferences at UCD in 2021 and 2023, and supported successive conferences in the UK, Austria, Romania and Belgium in 2024-27.