I undertook my undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the University of Leeds, where I was lucky enough to be introduced to the eighteenth century by Profs John Chartres, and Prof Malcolm Chase. After being awarded an MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies, I moved to the University of Manchester to complete my AHRC-funded doctorate exploring women's experiences of giving birth in the eighteenth-century north of England.  I have since held postdoctoral posts at the Centre of Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester, York Law School (University of York), Leeds Beckett University, and the University of Birmingham. I arrived at Edge Hill in January 2024.

My research is driven by a desire to understand the lives and relationships of ‘ordinary’ people in eighteenth-century England and their connection to the broader structures that organise their lives such as the parish, the law, the monarchy, and nationhood.   My current scholarship focuses on bodies, and on embodiment to explore the intersections between lived experience, society and culture.

I am the History Head of Subject and Programme Lead for undergraduate studies at Edge Hill. I teach across the BA History degree programme, responsible for delivering first-year modules on historical skills, second-year modules on the processes of writing history, and of making history accessible to the broader public, and third year modules on gender and power, and the sociology of the body.