I am a medieval historian focusing on socio-cultural, environmental, and economic perspectives of monastic history. My research explores areas of interaction between monastic institutions and local communities, with particular specialisms in the Cistercian Order, landscape history, saints’ cults, and lay religiosity. My broader interests include the early church and climate history. 

I have published on a wide variety of topics, ranging from cult chapels and burial practices to grange agriculture and the wool trade. My current research examines the intersection of monastic estates with earlier secular and spiritual territories to identify change and continuity of use and meaning in the medieval landscape.