- Professional Qualifications:
- BA (Hons): History and English (CNAA, 1992)
- MA: The English Renaissance: Politics, Patronage and Literature (Reading, 1993)
- PhD: Foreign Diplomatic Representatives to the Court of James VI and I (UWE, 2000)
- MA: Church History (Nottingham, 2016)
Current Research:
- The Women behind the Wall: The English Benedictine Monastery of the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady [1597 – 1975]. This research is based on the Haslemere Collection at Downside Abbey — see my website here.
- Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe, an edited collection with Charlotte Backerra Abingdon: Routledge, 2020 (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge)
- Gender and Diplomacy. Women and Men in European and Ottoman Embassies from the 15th to the 18th Century. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Diplomatica, 2) with Laura Olivàn Santaliestra and Suna Suner
- Performance of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World. Vienna: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Diplomatica, 3) with Reinhard Eisendle and Suna Suner of Don Juan Archiv Wien
Membership of Professional Bodies:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society