I undertook a BA (Politics and Modern History) at the university of Manchester, an MA (Politics Research Track) at the University of Nottingham and completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield (2015). I have since taught at the University of Liverpool, University of Winchester and University of Leicester before joining York St John University in 2018 as a lecturer in politics.
I teach on the British Politics and Comparative Politics pathways of the politics degree programmes, and have taught on a number of modules as well as supervising undergraduate and MA dissertations.
I have also contributed to the foundation year programme through offering lectures on Marxism and utopian ideologies.
I teach on the following modules:
- IRL4002M Finding a Role: The UK in the World
- IRL5001M International Political Economy
- POL4002M UK Politics: Tradition and Change
- POL4005M Comparative Politics
- POL5001 Political Analysis: Theories and Methods
- POL5006M Political Parties and Politicians in the UK
- POL5009M The European Union
- POL6010M The Political Economy of Crises
- POL6012M Dissertation
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.
