I completed my undergraduate degree in costume making at The Central School of Speech and Drama (2009-2012) whilst reading monographs on the history of the English folk revival and learning to clog and morris dance. I went on to do an MA ‘Investigating Fashion Design’ at Bath Spa University (2012-2013), and then, two dissertations on the development of English folk dance costume later, a TECHNE funded PhD at the University of Roehampton (2016-2021) under Professor Theresa Buckland and Professor Sara Houston. My thesis was the first ever in-depth study of post WWII social folk dance (i.e. barn dances and ceilidhs) in England. I am currently a board member of the Folk Music Journal and a member of the Instep Research Team .

My writings have been published in The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance, The Folk Music Journal, Folklore (with Sarah Peverley), the Country Dance and Song Online Journal, English Dance & Song, Trad Folk, and by organisations including The English Folk Dance and Song Society, The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and The Morris Federation. I am a requested reviewer for academic journals including Folklife and Traditions of Music and Dance.

In 2025 I handed over The English Folk Costume Archive. This comprised of some 265 objects which I had collected over a ten-year period. The costumes went to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Simon Costin of The Museum of British Folklore.

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Acedemy and have a DBS certificate (available upon request). I have given lectures or been consulted by a number of organisations including: The Museum of British Folklore, the Historical Dance Society, The Folklore Society, The English Folk Dance and Song Society, The Boston Embroiderers Guild; Northampton Performing Music Trust; Stony Stratford Arts and Heritage Festival; SPLAT (messy play, Northampton); Litchborough Tuesday Club, The Museum of Rural Life; and Worthing Museum.