I am Head of Academic Partnerships at the V&A, where I am responsible for leading on the strategic development of new academic partnerships that build on the V&A’s track record in innovative, interdisciplinary teaching and research. I joined the V&A from the University of Oxford where I was Heritage Engagement Fellow and Co-Lead of the Oxford University Heritage Network responsible for the University’s research and engagement projects with partners in the UK and international heritage sector. I am a historian by training, and received my undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford. My recent publications include contributions to The Country House: Past, Present and Future, Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House, along with journal articles exploring the politics of horseracing in eighteenth-century Britain, the importance of Jewish histories to country house studies, and the challenges of interpreting eighteenth-century spaces for twenty-first century visitors. I also write regularly for Apollo. Outside of the V&A I am a Trustee of the Churches Conservation Trust and University College Oxford Old Members Trust. I previously sat on Arts Council England’s Designation Panel, acted as a Trustee for the Walpole Society and Compton Verney House Charity, chaired The Heritage Alliance’s Digital Learning and Skills Advisory Group, and was a member of the ‘The Devonshire Inheritance: Unlocking the Chatsworth family papers’ Advisory Group for the Chatsworth House Trust.