Education
2020-2023 - University of Sheffield - PhD Politics, viva passed with no corrections
2019-2020 - University of Sheffield - MA Social Research, Distinction
2015-2016 - London School of Economics - MSc International Relations, Distinction
2011-2014 - University of Oxford - BA History, First Class
Academic employment
2024-2025 - University of Sheffield - ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
2024 - University of Sheffield - Publications Scholar & Research Assistant, Dr Lisa Stampnitzky
2021-2023 - University of Sheffield/University of York - Research Assistant, Civil War Paths project
Teaching experience
2024 - University of Sheffield - Teaching Associate, POL2000 The Left: Past, Present & Future
2024 - University of Sheffield - Student Mentor, POL242 The World’s Wicked Problems
2024 - University of Sheffield - Student Mentor, POL229 Political Analysis
2022 - University of Sheffield - Guest Lecturer, JNL61004 Communication in Peacebuilding
2022 - University of Sheffield - Teaching Associate, POL6005 Contemporary Global Security
2021 - University of Sheffield - Teaching Associate, POL118 British Politics
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2024 - ‘To Look for Another Thing, and in Another Way: Revitalising Criticality with Multimodal Methodologies’, Critical Studies on Terrorism
2024 - ‘Armed Group Formation in Civil War: Clandestine, Social Movement, and State Splinter Origins’, Review of International Studies
2023 - ‘Introducing the “Conceptual Archive”: A Genealogy of Counterterrorism in 1970s Britain’, European Journal of International Security
2023 - ‘The Ring Cycle: Journeying Through the Language of Tolkien’s Third Age with Corpus Linguistics’, Journal of Tolkien Research
2021 - ‘Historicising “Terrorism”: How, and Why?’, Critical Studies on Terrorism
Grants
2024-2025 - ESRC - £130,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship
2024 - University of Sheffield - £4,650 Publications Scholarship
2021-2023 - UKRI/British Association of Irish Studies/University of Sheffield - £3,000 impact/engagement funding
2019-2023 - ESRC - £99,000 White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship
2015-2016 - London School of Economics - £10,000 Master’s Scholarship
Presentations
2024 - EISA Pan European Conference - ‘Beyond the Surface of Things? The Use of Concepts from Quantum Mechanics in International Relations’, Lille
2023 - EISA European Workshops in International Studies - ‘Using Multimodality to Make Space for New Voices’, Amsterdam
2023 - BISA Conference - ‘Making “Space” for Resistance in Critical Analyses of Security’, Glasgow
2023 - National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - ‘Bringing Time and Space Back In’, Dunedin
2022 - EISA European Workshops in International Studies - ‘The “Conceptual Archive”: A Useful Tool for Genealogising Security Practices?’, Thessaloniki
2022 - BISA Conference - ‘Genealogising “Terrorism” in Northern Ireland: “The Northern Ireland Problem” and the Roots of Contemporary Security Discourse’, Newcastle
Fellowships
2024 - University of York - Fellow, Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War
2023 - University of Otago - Visiting Scholar, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
2022 - Queen’s University Belfast - Visiting Student, Senator George J. Mitchel Institute
Non-academic employment
2020-2021 - UK Parliament - Constituency Support Officer, Clive Betts MP
2017-2019 - UK Parliament - Parliamentary Researcher & Senior Caseworker, Matt Rodda MP