Marie Mianowski’s research focuses on the representations of place, place-making and landscape issues in an Irish context. She is the editor of Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts (Palgrave, 2012), and the author of a monograph Post Celtic Tiger Landscapes in Irish Fiction (Routledge, 2017). She has co-edited several books on migration and published many chapters and articles on the above themes.
Véronique Molinari is a Professor of British and Irish history. Her research focuses on the Victorian and Edwardian women's movement in Britain and Ireland and on the various forms of women’s political participation in British and Irish politics. As co-founder of the project "Migrations, Borders and International Relations" of her research centre ILCEA4, she has dedicated a large part of her research to the issue of female emigration from Britain and Ireland. Her publications include: “The Emigration of Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Australia: The Earl Grey Scheme” in Marie Ruiz (Ed.), International Migrations in the Victorian Era, Studies in Global Migration History, (Brill, 2018) and " A Most ‘Valuable Class’: The Shetland Female Emigration Society and the Emigration of Single Women to South Australia and Tasmania in the early 1850s" in Northern Scotland, Volume 16, Issue 1 (May 2025).