I am a Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) working to enhance societal resilience to disruption. I am currently engaged with the Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities Network+ project (https://rboc.ac.uk), and the National Consortium for Societal Resilience (www.ambs.ac.uk/ncsr). At AMBS, I was previously a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Recovery, Renewal, Resilience project, which supported local government on COVID-19 recovery planning.

I previously held postdoc positions at the University of Liverpool (2018 -2020), and at Maynooth University in Ireland (2016-2018), in the latter case leading on an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship.

I obtained my PhD from Ulster University in 2014 where I investigated the destruction of the historic urban landscape of Belfast during the Northern Irish ‘Troubles'. I completed an MA in Town and Country Planning at the University of the West of England in 2008. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.