I am a social and cultural historian of post-war Britain, with a particular interest in histories of health, health services, and mobility.

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in 2014, after which I joined the University of Exeter as part of Professor Mark Jackson's Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, 'Lifestyle, health and disease: concepts of balance in modern medicine'. This research provided the basis both for an edited volume (Balancing the Self: Medicine, Politics and the Regulation of Health in the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, 2020), co-edited with Mark Jackson), and my first monograph - Managing Diabetes, Managing Medicine, (Manchester University Press, 2019) - which traced how new forms of chronic disease management developed in the post-war period and intersected with projects for managing medical professionals in the NHS.

I am currently working on two projects.

The first is a history of time and care in post-war British general practice, tentatively titled Hurry Up and Wait. This work forms part of the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award, "Waiting Times", an interdisicplinary project examining what it means to wait in contemporary health care led by Professor Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter) and Professor Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck).

The second, which forms part of my work in the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, is a history of commuting and wellbeing in late twentieth-century Britain. This project will situate concerns about commuting's effects on health in broader cultural, political and environmental contexts and examine the ways in which commuters themselves experienced and made use of their daily travel to work.

My general research interests are in the histories of:

• Chronic diseases and their medical and political management.
• Histories of time, temporality and care
• Post-war health and welfare services
• Commuting and everyday forms of mobility

Biography:

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in 2014, having also studied there for my undergraduate (2006-2009) and Master's (2009-2010) degrees in history and the history of medicine respectively. During my doctorate, I was fortunate enough to undertake an ESRC-funded internship within the Scottish Government (2012) and to work closely with the Industry and Parliamentary Trust as an author of their health memos (2011-2012). I joined the University of Exeter shortly after finishing my PhD, working as a post-doctoral fellow on two large Wellcome Trust-funded projects before joining the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health in September 2019.