About
I am the Project Manager for Melting Metropolis. This Wellcome Discovery Award funded project explores how Londoners, New Yorkers and Parisians and other urbanites have thought and felt about heat and its impact on their health since 1945. Our team includes historians and geographers at Liverpool and at Queens College, City University of New York, as well as a Research Artist and Community Engagement Manager. You can see more of our work on our website and via Instagram.
I am also a research-active historian, focusing particularly on medieval charters and cartularies. My two main fields of interest are the history of the counts of Anjou in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the history of the Cistercian abbey of Kirkstead in Lincolnshire. I have published extensively on both subjects and my monograph, titled Power and Political Culture in Greater Anjou c.1090-1189, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. I am currently preparing an edition of the thirteenth-century cartulary and charters of Kirkstead Abbey, to be published by the Lincoln Record Society as part of the Kathleen Major Series of medieval records.
Prior to working with Melting Metropolis, I held postdoctoral research fellowships at the universities of Leeds (AHRC-funded project 'Sacred Landscapes of Medieval Monasteries') and Manchester (Leverhulme-funded Early Career Fellowship). My work on Kirkstead has been undertaken at the University of Leeds, funded jointly by the AHRC and a Lincoln Record Society Nigel Burn Memorial Fellowship. Since gaining my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2011, I have also lectured at several universities, including Liverpool.
Funded Fellowships
- Lincoln Record Society Nigel Burn Large Grant Research Fellow (Lincoln Record Society, 2023 - present)