As as PhD candidate at the University of Southampton, I am writing a thesis on the impact of seafaring and storminess on medieval port towns, titled: Shaped by Ships and Storms: A maritime archaeology of medieval New Winchelsea.

Using Winchelsea in East, Sussex, UK as a case study, I employ a practical approach to my work, collecting and analysing a variety of data sets (geophysical, geological, geochemical, iconographic and historical) to produce a narrative of a community whose attitudes towards the sea shifted over time. As such, I am the field director of the Winchelsea Harbour Geotechnical survey.

I also keep abreast of the latest developments in ship archaeology, in particular of the Viking and medieval periods, where my focus lies on craftsmanship, the transfer of practical knowledge and drivers underpinning technological change (or stasis).

In a similar vein, I am the principal investigator of an Honor Frost Foundation funded project that aims to create open-source databases and reference collections of ships' fasteners and tool marks on maritimearchaeology.com.

I also am interested in climate change of the last millennium and the dialectic impact-response in relation to maritime communities. Currently, I am working on how scientific techniques can be used to advance the interplay between written sources, material culture and environmental proxy data.