About
Sarah works on the history of modern Britain, with a particular focus on women’s history, student histories, and the history of medicine. She is currently writing a history of concern about student mental health since the Second World War
They are a co-editor of the journal Twentieth Century British History. Alongside Sarah Kenny, they are currently co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History, which is under contract and due for publication in 2026. They serve as the director of GENCAS (the Centre for Research into Gender and Culture in Society), an interdisciplinary research centre at Swansea University.
They regularly contribute to BBC History Magazine, and their writing can also be found in Times Higher Education and the Fabian Review.
They have held grants from the Wellcome Trust, the AHRC, and the ESRC. They are currently a Co-Investigator on U-Belong, a multi-million-pound Medical Research Council project that takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding student loneliness.
Before taking up a lectureship at Swansea, they were the Sir Christopher Cox Junior Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. They completed their PhD at Queen Mary University of London after earning an MSt in Women’s Studies at Keble College, Oxford, and an undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex.
