Dr Daniel McKay

Daniel is one of our Bye–Fellows, as the inaugural Emma Experience Director. He has established an exciting extra–curricular programme for the whole community at Emmanuel College, which focuses on life skills, health, wealth and wellbeing and global citizenship.

Biography

Originally from rural New South Wales in Australia, Daniel trained in history and law at the Australian National University in Canberra, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 2016. On the basis of his undergraduate research, he was awarded the Mick Williams Prize for History, the Max Kelly Medal (awarded annually to a beginning historian for a work of excellence in Australian history by the History Council of New South Wales), and the Francis Forbes Society prize for Australian Legal History. He also has previously been a Summer Research Scholar at the School of History at ANU and at the University of Queensland. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

Teaching

Daniel supervises and has lectured undergraduates at the University on British political, constitutional and imperial history, as well as on historical argument and practice.

Research

Daniel has worked as a researcher in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library and for the Country Education Foundation in Australia. He came to Cambridge for his MPhil in World History, and PhD in History under the supervision of Professor Saul Dubow,  working on the Colonial and Imperial Conferences (1887–1937).

As a scholar he is interested in global and imperial history and specialise in the history of the British Empire, with a research focus on the evolving constitutional, political and social relationship between Britain and the Dominions (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland) and other colonies like India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is also interested in the bibliographic history of the British Empire and imperialism.