Ongoing Research Projects
Founded in 2019 and based at the UCD Centre for War Studies, the Military Welfare History Network has brought together hundreds of researchers and scholars from around the world whose scholarship engages with the 'academic perspective' of military welfare history. Together they provide fact-based, critical historical analysis of military welfare, benefits and provisions for those in uniform and their families to both evaluate the past and to influence contemporary military and civilian systems of welfare and care and social policies.
It comprises over 270 academic researchers active in the broad and diverse area of military welfare history, who are based at or affiliated with nearly 170 higher education institutions and other organisations in 31 countries across the globe - (opens in a new window)Members. To these are added two dozen affiliated journals, projects, centres and organisations - (opens in a new window)Affiliates. Together members are sharing their immense expertise; developing research consortia, publications and projects; and endeavouring to develop this immensely diverse and important interdisciplinary field of research, education and public policy.
The Military Welfare History Network was founded and is still co-ordinated by Dr Paul Huddie and its UCD members include (amongst others):
It hosted both its first and second (opens in a new window)international conferences at UCD in 2021 and 2023; from which both a special issue of War & Society (Fall 2023) and an edited volume (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) were the (opens in a new window)outputs.
Several keynotes from these events were also recorded and can be listened to via the UCD HistoryHub podcast (opens in a new window)here.
Full details about the Network's members, affiliates, events and publications can be found at: