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Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

What is your role and what does it involve?

At the moment my role is mostly a research one,ÌýI have been on departmental research leave and am about to start a Leverhulme Fellowship. In the past my role has includedÌýteaching, research, departmental administration, as well as more ad hoc outreach and public engagement activities.

How long have you been at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and what was your previous role?

I have been at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ since 2010 andÌýI also did my PhD here. I previously worked as aÌýjunior research fellow in history at St John’s College, Oxford.Ìý

What attracted you to Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾?

A great and happy department and colleagues, the freedom to teach to my research interests, wonderful students, super medieval colleagues across Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and London more widely, and specialist libraries only to be rivalled in a handful of other places internationally.Ìý

What working achievement or initiative at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ (or in previous work experiences) are you most proud of?Ìý

I was very proud that my first book, Officers and Accountablity in Medieval England, won the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize 2015 for best first book on British/Irish history.

Describe Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ in three words

Metropolitan, connected, invigorating.

What is the best aspect about working at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾?

The freedom to teach cutting-edge research to great students,Ìýand to do that research.
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