My research interests are in British politics, public policy/governance, political economy and crisis management. Conceptually, I draw on concepts from across these disciplines, especially organisational views of the state, meta-governance, the British Political Tradition, statecraft and (de)politicisation to examine a wide array of pressing policy problems and political issues.

My doctoral research centred on the position of post-crisis public inquiries within broader patterns of British governance and state attempts to depoliticise major political crises. This remains an ongoing research interest and is the subject of my first monograph The Politics of Public Inquiries: Crisis, Containment and Contestation (Palgrave Macmillan), to be published in Spring 2026. I have also published on this topic in the journal British Politics, provided expert oral testimony before the Statutory Inquiry Committee (2024), and have written widely on post-crisis public inquiries in outlets such as The Conversation. I am active in a number of interdisciplinary research groups on public inquiries.

Since joining Manchester, I have worked within The Productivity Institute on a project examining The Productivity-Governance Puzzle. This project focusses on the evolving governance of economic policymaking in Britain at the national and subnational level, with a particular focus on issues such as industrial strategy, devolution, artificial intelligence, and the pathologies of the British state. Thus far, this project has resulted in publications in Political Quarterly on the political economy of AI in the UK, and improving policymaking in Whitehall; in Renewal on Labour's economic strategy; and in a variety of short-form pieces for outlets such as The Productivity Institute and Mile End Institute.

My current role is as a research associate at Manchester's Institute for Innovation Research (MIOIR) on a Trans-Atlantic Partnership-funded project focussed on the design and implementation of mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs). This project involves a consortium of researchers in three countries and is therefore comparative in scope. My role relates to examining the governance of the UK's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) and it's Clean Growth portfolio.