Una is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney's Medieval and Early Modern Centre. Her fellowship is funded by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (http://www.emotions.uwa.edu.au/). Her research investigates emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.

Una was recently awarded her PhD following the successful completion of an AHRC-funded doctoral thesis at CELL looking at scandal and reputation at the female court of Catherine de Medici, queen mother of France during the sixteenth century.