Laura McElwee

Laura McElwee serves as a Lecturer in Finance at Ulster University Business School within the Department of Acc, Finance & Economics, based at the Belfast campus (Room BC-08-210, 2-24 York Street).

Her research integrates computational finance and behavioral economics, specializing in cryptocurrency market dynamics. She employs:

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) for textual analysis of market sentiment
• Machine Learning algorithms to detect behavioral patterns
• Structural Topic Modelling for bubble narrative extraction

with primary focus on Bitcoin markets. Her work directly supports UN Sustainable Development Goals related to economic innovation and technological advancement.

Analysis of her 2022-2024 publications reveals a consistent methodological trajectory: leveraging media content and social sentiment data to quantify behavioral drivers in cryptocurrency volatility. Her research demonstrates how news narratives propagate through investor networks during market bubbles, establishing causal links between linguistic patterns in financial media and price movements in Bitcoin markets.

No scientific awards were documented in the source materials.

While active in academic service through conference participation, no student advising relationships or research grant details were specified.

No dedicated research laboratories or team structures were mentioned in available documentation.