Jennifer McLaren has recently completed a PhD at Macquarie University. Her thesis, ‘Irish Lives in the British Caribbean: Engaging with Empire, 1770-1835,’ utilised the biographies of ten Irish sojourners to address the question of the Irish experience of empire. After a legal career in Australia and the UK, Jennifer returned to study to complete a Masters of Research and PhD. Her MRes thesis on the reporting of imperial news in England and Ireland in 1783 was adapted for publication in a special edition on Transnational Ireland in the Irish studies journal Éire-Ireland.