My research interests are broadly based around Identity, Englishness, Empire, and popular culture in the C.20th. I have published widely on these topics, including my monographs British Spy Fiction & the End of Empire (2016) and The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature & History After Empire (2022). Please see my Orcid profile for further detail.

I have also worked extensively in Medical Humanities and drinking studies, exploring the relationship between medicine and alcohol in colonial British India. I am currently Co-Director of the Drinking Studies Network and convenor of the Drinking Spaces research cluster. I was also a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, and continue to work in public engagement including co-organising the 'Think While You Drink' series of talks.

As an educator, I have held a variety of positions with responsibility for academic and pastoral support alongside my academic teaching and lecturing roles, and have led on unit design and the evaluation of programme content at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am interested in the pedagogic practice of teaching challenging subjects, specifically those that address trauma or notions of selfhood.