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I completed my joint honours Bachelor of Arts in History and Roman Civilisation at the University of Leeds in 1995. I was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) to complete my Masters and PhD theses at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. I was awarded a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship in 2000, and spent 2001 living in the cities of Kazan, NIzhnii Novogorod, Kazan and St. Petersburg. I was appointed to my post here at Nottingham in January 2002, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007.

I am co-editor of the journal Revolutionary Russia http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/frvr20/current

My research focuses on Russia in the late Imperial and revolutionary periods. I am interested in comparative perspectives on questions of punishment, free and unfree labour, and penal cultures.

I spent several years working on ordinary people's experiences of the Russian revolution. This research culminated in a book published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, Politics and the People; A provincial history. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496998

I am currently working on a book contracted by Oxford University Press entitled Siberia as place of punishment in late Imperial Russia. This work includes a chapter on sickness and health. 

I am involved in collaborations with the National Trust property The Workhouse at Southwell, the Galleries of Justice museum, and with Tania McIntosh, from Midwifery at University of Nottingham. We hope to develop a project working with the NCT.