Dr. Catherine Porter

Catherine Porter is Head of Subject and Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Limerick. She is a historical geographer with research interests in geospatial technologies and mixed-method approaches for analysing and interpreting early source material. She specialises in the cultural narratives of texts, focusing on maps of Ireland from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. She has worked on projects funded by the European Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Heritage Council (Ireland), and the J B Harley Trust, for which she was awarded the J. B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Catherine is the Research Ireland PI on ‘OS200: digitally re-mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage’ and the Heritage Council funded project, ‘Locating Benchmarks, Preserving Heritage’. You can view her full research profile here.