Current Committee Role:
Communications Coordinator
About Me:
I am a Collections Assistant (Earth Collections) at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, where I undertake a range of curatorial activities within the palaeontology collections, including cataloguing, location and movement control, access, donations and loans.
As a palaeontologist, I have worked across a variety of taxonomic groups, including marine invertebrates, marine vertebrates and terrestrial invertebrates. I started my career with a BSc (Hons) in Palaeontology from the University of Portsmouth (2015 - 2018), where my undergraduate thesis investigated the taphonomy of ammonites from the Toarcian Whitby Mudstone Formation, North Yorkshire. I then undertook a stand-alone one-year Masters degree at the University of Manchester (2018 - 2020) and received an MPhil in Palaeontology for a thesis that focused on a revision of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Whitby, Yorkshire. In 2024, I completed a PhD at The Open University, funded by NERC through the CENTA Doctoral Training Partnership, which focused on fossil insect assemblages associated with the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in northwest Tethys.
In August 2021, I was part of a small team which excavated the largest, most complete marine reptile skeleton ever unearthed in Britain, at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. In July 2022, I was also part of an excavation team which unearthed an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem at a newly found site at Court Farm near Stroud, Gloucestershire. The excavation yielded fossil finds including exceptionally preserved fish, ichthyosaur bones, molluscs, coprolites, rare insects and more.
I am incredibly enthusiastic about helping to build the profile of the Geological Curators Group, and to advocate for the importance and protection of geological collections. Please feel free to reach out to me at