I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, primarily working on a project about nineteenth-century atheist, secular, and agnostic movements and the associated periodical press. More broadly, I am a specialist in literature and intellectual history.
My book – Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher and Poet (Peter Lang, 2019) – introduces an exemplary interdisciplinary thinker whose poetry and prose illuminates how synthetic thinking was a productive and creative force within nineteenth-century intellectual culture. My research on this topic has also been published in Victorian Poetry and Victorian Literature and Culture. I co-edited a Routledge Historical Resource volume with Naomi Hetherington, titled Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature, and Culture: Disbelief and New Beliefs (2020).
I was a Research Assistant on 'Exploring Inequalities – igniting research to better inform UK policy’, a collaborative project led by UCL and the Resolution Foundation for which I co-wrote the final report: 'Structurally Unsound' (launched October 2019). I was also the Research Impact Officer for the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social & Historical Sciences at UCL (2019-20). I have previously taught at the University of Birmingham and UCL.