Research & Education

Junior Fellow – LMU München - October 2023-March 2024
KFG ‘Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History’
Directors: Andreas Wirsching, Kiran Klaus Patel and Martin Schulze Wessel

PhD Politics - University of Nottingham – 2023
Dissertation Title – Conceptualising Ideological Transition: Centre-Right Neoliberalisation in the UK and post-war West Germany
Supervisors: Mathew Humphrey and Andrew Denham
Examiners: Ben Jackson and Dean Blackburn

M.A. Social Research – University of York – 2018

B.Sc. Government – London School of Economics – 2017 


Selected Conference Presentations

"Contested visions of social Europe(s) in the 1970s", Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 23.02.2024

“Politics, Policy and Publics in the United States and United Kingdom: Exploring Linkages and Making Comparisons”, University of Leicester, 26.05.2023

 “The Nature of Conservatism and Christian Democracy: A Comparative and Transnational History of Britain, Scandinavia, and Germany in the Post-War Period”, NTNU Trondheim, Norway 29-30.09.2022

The 23rd International Conference on the History of Concepts “Global Modernity: Emotions, Temporalities and Concepts” Berlin, 2-4,09.2021

University of Essex Department of Government HEROEs PhD Colloquium, 18.11.2020

1st Graduate Conference in Intellectual History, European University Institute, “Transcultural Conversations”, 23-24.01.2020

German Historical Institute London, 24th Postgraduate Research Students Conference, 9.01.2020

EuroStorie, University of Helsinki, “Liberalism: Historical and Contemporary Variations”, 24-25.10.2019

PSA Conservatism Studies Workshop, 13-14.07.2019

COST Action CA 16211 RECAST “Critiques of Liberalism and Challenges to Democracy: Understanding the Conservative Standpoint”, 14.-15.2.2019 in Pilsen (CZ)

PSA German Politics Specialist Group Workshop “German Politics in Times of Populism”, 17.11.2017


Service Roles

Departmental Committees

University of Nottingham - School of Politics and International Relations
Founder and Convenor of Contemporary Political History Seminar 2020-22
Research Committee – 2018-9; 2021-22
Curriculum Committee –2021-22
Ethics Committee – 2020-21
PGR Colloquium – 2019-20
PGR Fund – 2019-20
PGR Conference Committee– 2018-9

Conference Organisation

LMU Munich KFG Junior Fellow Workshop - February 2024 ‘Contested visions of social Europe(s) in the 1970s’ 

Contemporary Political History Seminar 2021 ‘Change in the Postwar World’
Recipient of funding from AHRC 'Midlands4Cities' DTC

University of Nottingham SPIR PGR Conference 2019 ‘Politics as a Location’


Funding Received

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Travel Grant
$1300 for archival research trip to Michigan, USA
Summer 2020

German History Society: Small Research Grant
€575 covering the cost of archival research trip to Bonn, Germany
Summer 2019

Fee Waiver – University of Nottingham School of Politics and International Relations
2018-2021


Awards

CRISPI PGR Prize - 2023

Michael Cowan Award 2021 – £1000 award for achievement as a PGR at University of Nottingham SPIR

Associate Fellow of the HEA – July 2021


Language Skills

English – Native fluency

German – Intermediate comprehension; basic production


Selected Additional Training

University of Nottingham Teaching and Learning Development Programme (TLDP); Facing the Journalists: communicating your research through the media; Teaching Students from Different Cultures; MS Teams and Teaching; Accessibility of Teaching & Learning Materials; German for Academic Purposes