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I am Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham.

My research focuses on the British countryside in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially rural health histories, rural communities, agricultural workers, knowledge networks, and the relationship between town and country.

My first monograph: Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its Rural Hinterland, c. 1830-1830 (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2019) included chapters on living and working conditions and the relationship between town and country (https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/communities-in-contrast)

I am now working towards my second monograph: Farming, Psychiatry and Rural Society: Asylum and Hospital Farms (Routledge, 2022). in addition, my work on rural health histories considers the notion of a healthy countryside and mental ill health in the countryside. I am particularly interested in pursuing interdisciplinary links and the contemporary relevance of rural health histories, working with other sectors including museums, health, farming, and county councils. 

I have also undertaken pedagogical research, including the uses of history in community education, the relationship between cultural stimuli and mental health and wellbeing, and the role of place and space in Adult Education. I continue to engage in pedagogical research, exploring subject specific initiatives including assessment, diversity and inclusivity, and health and wellbeing. I am on the Steering Committee of the East Midlands Centre for History Learning and Teaching, and I am the Chair of History Lab Plus (a national organisation that supports early career historians) and Secretary of the British Agricultural History Society. I have a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in HIgher Education and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.