I am a lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, teaching British politics and researching parliaments and legislatures.

Previously I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, working on the ESRC-funded project Rethinking the role of Small Parties in the UK’s Parliaments with Dr Louise Thompson.

My doctoral research was carried out at the University of Sheffield and was funded by a studentship from the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics. My thesis ‘Understanding the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster: A case study of institutional change in the UK Parliament’ was passed without corrections by Prof Cristina Leston-Bandeira (Leeds) and Prof Charles Pattie (Sheffield) and was awarded the 2020 Walter Bagehot Prize for best dissertation in the field of government and public administration by the Political Studies Association.

I am the co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Parliaments, and a member of the Study of Parliament Group and the International Parliament Engagement Network.

Prior to entering academia, I worked for over a decade in Westminster, for select committees in the House of Commons and for MPs.