I completed my PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2019, with a thesis exploring the impact of female drunkenness in Victorian Lancashire. I am a qualified teacher and have experience in both Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE). My first teaching role was at Salford College, where I taught Basic Skills to adults. I have taught History at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk and at University of Liverpool, where I currently hold a fixed-term, part-time position in the Department of History. I am part-time Lecturer at Staffordshire University.
Academic qualifications
- PhD, ‘The Worst of Drunkards’: Female Drunkenness in Mid-Victorian Lancashire’, University of Liverpool
- MA, British Social History, Lancaster University
- BA (Hons), History, Edge Hill University
Research interests
- Sentencing patterns
- Policing
- Life course of offenders
- Social investigation
Teaching
Undergraduate
- History of crime and punishment
Publications
‘‘The evil is one of the utmost gravity’: female drunkenness and Strangeways Prison, 1869-1875’ Prison Services Journal, 246, Nov 2019
https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/psj/prison-service-journal-246
‘Exploring Sentencing Patterns for Female Drunkenness and Crimes of Violence in Mid-Victorian Lancashire’
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (Dec 2017)
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/issue/5506