Academic qualifications

  • PhD - University of Strathclyde
  • BA (Hons) - University of Strathclyde.

Teaching specialism

  • Modern British Social and Policial History
  • Modern American History
  • Modern History of Religion in Europe
  • History of American and British Popular Music in the 20th century
  • Historical methodology and Historiography
  • History of Public Health and Medicine.

Current scholarship

  • My recent main area of scholarship is in the relationship between the Religious Beliefs and the Politics of Margaret Thatcher. The research will be published by Palgrave in 2021
  • I am working on a number of projects around the subject of the history of contagious diseases, notably outbreaks of the Bubonic plague in the 20th century
  • In collaboration with media and games studies, I am helping to curate a display on the history of the technologies that used magnetic tape
  • I am also looking at putting together a project on the history of Board Games.

Research and academic outputs

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