Leanne McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish Social History at Ulster University. She has published widely on areas relating to sexuality, women and history of medicine with a focus on twentieth century Northern Ireland. She is currently working on a Department of Health NI funded project on Magdalene Laundries/Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland and is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded ‘Bad Bridget’ project which focuses on criminal and deviant Irish women in North America, 1838–1918.