As Head of Aber Online, Aberystwyth University's Online Learning Programme, I am responsible for leading on the planning, development, implementation and management of our online learning programmes, working closely with our partner Higher Education Partners. The role ensures the delivery of high-quality, accessible and innovative online education in line with our strategic objectives, priorities and the development and delivery of online learning.

Academically, I am a first generation political, social, and cultural historian of Britain and Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I have particular research interests in Parliamentary History, Visual Culture, Radicalism, Sociability, Drinking Studies, Health Humanities, Electoral Culture, The Foxite Whigs.

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My current research includes, a major interdisciplinary project exploring the relationship between alcohol, politics, and the body in the late eighteenth century. A chapter entitled ‘Getting a Little “Bosky”: The Foxite Whigs, Political Drinking and Visual Culture’, for a Palgrave collection entitled: Political Drinking In Britain, Ireland, and Northern Europe, 1700-1850 (in-press) and edited by Martyn Powell (Bristol) and Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne); a chapter for a Boydell collection edited by Elaine Chalus (Liverpool) and Matthew Grenby (Newcastle) in association with the major AHRC project Eighteenth Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture (ECPPEC), exploring the role and depiction of electoral ‘treating’ during parliamentary elections (in-press); and a chapter for an interdisciplinary Medical Humanities collection exploring the impact and depiction of alcohol on the life and career of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (in-preparation). Other works include articles exploring the career, lives, and output of the artists Thomas Rowlandson (European Comic Art), William Dent, and James Sayers. The latter is supported by a Royal Historical Society ECR Grant.