I am a historian of the cultural, military, and social history of war. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I began my fellowship with LSE100 after completing my PhD in the Department of International History in December 2018 (where I was an LSE PhD Studentship holder). My thesis – Making Sense of the Western Front: English Infantrymen’s Morale and Perception of Crisis during the Great War – was supervised by Professor Heather Jones (now UCL) and Professor David Stevenson. In 2017, it was awarded a prestigious international scholarship by the Historial de la Grande Guerre, France. My work straddles military and cultural history but is also highly interdisciplinary. It engages with a broad array of theory from anthropology, behavioural economics, psychology, and sociology as it unpicks soldiers’ morale. Broadly, my research looks to understand combatant’s mentalities and explores how the environment, social groups, and their psychologies interwove to inform their frames of reference and perceptions of crisis. I am currently preparing this for publication. Elsewhere, I have published and presented about various aspects of military history, popular culture, and national identity. My next project will shift its perspective to look at similar issues in the British Army during the Second World War. I have taught a variety of topics across history and the social sciences and also work as a consultant curriculum developer. As well as my responsibilities with LSE100, during the 2020-21 academic year I will also be teaching HY120: Historical Approaches to the Modern World.