I am a PhD researcher in Geography and Museum Studies at King’s College London, co-supervised by the Museum of Cambridge. My work currently looks at the relationship between weather, heritage, and museum collections, specifically in the context of peatland landscapes.
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I am a PhD researcher at King’s College London in Geography and Museum Studies. The project is co-supervised by the Museum of Cambridge - a social history museum which ‘tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people’ in and around Cambridgeshire. Mostly, I split my time between reading evocative accounts of nineteenth-century wildfowling and getting out and about in the East Anglian Fens.
Before starting my PhD in 2024, I studied a BSocSC in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and an MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Alongside my studies, I work on a freelance basis for youth-led peatland justice collective RE-PEAT, and volunteered as part of the Holburne Future Collective at the Holburne Museum, Bath.
I grew up in the South-West of England, but my Mum is from the midlands of Ireland. One of my earliest memories is the smell of a turf fire, lingering in cold winter air, which was always present when we would visit my Nana at Christmas time. As an adult, I fell in love with the bogs which characterise the Irish landscape, and have spent most of my time ever since doing peat, water, museum and heritage-related stuff!