Within CRESC my primary role is to provide quantitative analysis under Theme 5 of the research agenda, ‘Trajectories of Participation and Inequality’, working alongside Professor Mike Savage and Dr. Andrew Miles.  Prior to joining CRESC I was a Research Associate in the History Department at Lancaster University working on a project entitled, Troubled Geographies: Two Centuries of Religious Division in Ireland.  Funded under the AHRC’s ‘Religion & Society’ programme the project was a collaboration between Lancaster, Queen’s University Belfast and the City University of New York which used spatial and statistical methods to analyse social, economic and religious change across the island of Ireland since the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century.