Gareth is a Lecturer in Finance at Queen's University Belfast. His research focuses on historical asset price bubbles and financial crises, particularly the British Railway Mania of the 1840s.

AWARDS
- Winner of Economic History Society New Researcher Prize, 2009

- Finalist in European Business History Association Dissertation Prize, 2010

JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Substitutes for Legal Protection: Corporate Governance and Dividends in Victorian Britain, with Turner, J. D., Economic History Review, 2011, vol. 64, pp.571-597

- Myopic Rationality in a Mania. Explorations in Economic History, 2012, vol. 49, Issue 1, pp.75–91

- Dispelling the Myth of the Naive Investor during the British Railway Mania, 1845–46, with Turner, J. D., Business History Review, forthcoming.

OTHER ARTICLES
- The Railway Mania: Not so Great Expectations?, European Business History Association Newsletter, 2010

- The British Railway Mania, European Association for Banking and Financial History Bulletin, 2010

- The Railway Mania: Not so Great Expectations?, Vox, May 2009, Available at
http://www.voxeu.eu/index.php?q=node/3598;

CONFERENCES
- Economic History Society, Cambridge, 2011

- BETA Workshop in Historical Economics, Strasbourg, 2011

- European Historical Economics Society Conference, Dublin, 2011

- Cliometric Society Session at ASSA, Denver, 2011

- Financial Crises and Policy through History Seminar Series, Oxford, 2010

- Sound Economic History Workshop, Lund, Sweden, 2010

- European Business History Association Dissertation Prize Session, Glasgow, 2010

- European Association of Banking and Financial History Young Scholars’ Workshop, Zurich, 2010

- Economic History Society Annual Conference (New Researchers’ Section), Warwick, April, 2009.

- Economic History Roundtable, Manchester, January, 2008;

- European Business History Association Summer School, Terni, Italy, September, 2007;

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Corporate Finance, 2009-11

- Maths for Finance, 2009-11