My first degree was in analytic philosophy at the University of Cambridge, after which I worked in Cambridge for several years. Delighted to discover the existence of postgraduate courses which would feed my long-term fascination with medical history, I ran away to the northeast to pursue an interdisciplinary MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Durham University.

I was then lucky enough to win a Northern Bridge doctoral studentship from the AHRC, and spent several very happy years at Newcastle University researching the history of women’s self-pleasure. I was awarded my PhD in 2022, and am now an associate lecturer in history at Newcastle.

I live in County Durham, where I exist in a flurry of hobbies from drawing to dressmaking, and am regularly menaced by a flock of bantams in the back garden. Queer and proud; trans-inclusive feminist; lifelong folkie; Oxford comma enthusiast; occasional gardener.