I joined York St John as a lecturer in 2018, having previously taught at the University of Liverpool and the University of Leicester. I was appointed senior lecturer in 2023. I was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2019.
Prior to this, I obtained my PhD from the University of Sheffield and a MA from the University of Nottingham.
My current research is comprised of two strands, both of which exist at the intersection of British politics and history. The first strand focuses on crises in British political history, covering themes such as agenda setting, framing and blame attribution. The second explores British elections and explores how different elections are understood. This highlights and analyses the different levels of salience afforded to different types of elections.
I am a co-convener of the interdisciplinary group Contemporary History and Politics at York St. John University.
My teaching spans British politics and political economy. In 2026/7 I will teach on the following modules:
- IRL5001M International Political Economy
- POL4010M British Politics: Continuity and Change
- POL5017M Elections and Voters in Britain
- POL5020M The Conservative Party
- POL6013M The Political Economy of Crises
- POL6017M The Labour Party
I also supervise a number of dissertations covering; British politics, Elections and Voters, European (EU) Politics, Political Economy & Industrial Relations. I am currently supervising three PhD students focusing on Industrial relations in the UK, Notions of representative democracy in the UK and UK-Irish relations.
I would welcome prospective PhD students whose research focuses upon any of the areas listed above.
My research adopts a mixed methods approach, and my interests bridge the sub disciplines of political economy and political history. I am primarily interested in our understanding of crises and how these have impacted upon British politics.
I have published monographs comparing crises in modern British Politics and exploring how crises have shaped the UK Labour party’s economic ideology. I have further published journal articles which explores the origins of the 2007 economic crisis and argue that the legislative impasses associated with Brexit are best conceptualized as constitutional weaknesses, rather than a constitutional crisis.
I am also interested in UK elections and have published a monograph comparing the salience afforded to different types of elections in the UK as well as journal articles on the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections.
