I am an early-career researcher based in the UK, interested in the intersections between making, mending and decay. This site is both a personal profile and a home for the more experimental parts of my work. Any views expressed here are my own.

My practice combines practical, digital and quantitative methods to supplement traditional archive and object focused research. This can look like making my own quicklime to follow early-modern cement recipes, analysing the frequency of broken things in household inventories, or collaborating with museum colleagues to conserve porcelain figures. You can see some of this in action here.

Cultures of Ceramic Mending in the Long Eighteenth Century — my doctoral project — focuses upon the binding, burning, lacing, riveting, gluing and rimming of broken earthenware, stoneware and porcelain objects in Britain between 1660 and 1830. I have been a PhD candidate in History and member of St John’s College, Cambridge since 2023.

This work is supervised by Professor Melissa Calaresu and Professor Victoria Avery, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It is conducted in collaboration with the Fitzwilliam Museum, where I work with the ceramics of Trinity College fellow Dr James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), who left his extensive collection to the Museum on his death. You can read about the project here.

My background is in cultural heritage, design history and philosophy. I previously worked in the UK’s largest private archive and supported varied humanities programming at St George’s Medical School. I have further experience in higher-education operations and as a tutor.

I grew up in Kidlington in Oxfordshire, then moved around London for eight years. I’m an enthusiastic holder of a foreshore permit, intermittent climber, and enjoy nagging my friends and partner into long distance hikes. I am neurodivergent, and my approach to hobbies is to go through them at a rate of knots; my latest is crochet.