I am a Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at The University of Manchester. I've previously worked at Sheffield Hallam University, UWE Bristol, University of Derby, and De Montfort University. My research focus is on the history and heritage of British film, television, and popular culture. My PhD examined the business of filmmaking and the global financial, production, distribution, and exhibition practices of film producers through a case study of Stanley Kubrick. I'm a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Academic Delegate on The National Archives’ User Advisory Group, and co-editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

My research focus is on the history and heritage of British film, television, and popular culture, and archives of popular culture. I've written extensively about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick, the phenomenon of unmade film and television, the culture-led regeneration of post-industrial cities since the 1980s, the political economy of film festivals, and methods and practices of archiving culture. I also investigate the ways in which popular culture archives are used in knowledge production, archival gaps and silences in cultural archives, and the ways in which researchers, archivists, and non-academic audiences can collaborate to reveal new or overlooked stories, voices, and perspectives about our shared cultural lives. 

I'm the programme director for the BA Cultural, Creative and Media Industries programme and convenor of modules such as Culture as Industry and Archiving Culture. 

I welcome PhD proposals in the broad research areas of cultural and media history; cultural archives and archival methods; archives and creative practice; film and television industries and workers; festival studies; and unmade/unproduction studies.

Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Academic Delegate, The National Archives' User Advisory Group
Ordinary member, International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Editor, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2024-)
Editor, Open Screens (2022-2024)
Editorial Board, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2022-)
Editorial Board, Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies (2021-)
Editorial Board, Frames Cinema Journal (2020-)