• 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
• Gender and Diplomacy, an edited collection with Suna Suner and Reinhard Eisendle of Don Juan Archiv Wien

Membership of Professional Bodies:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society