I enjoy supervising PhDs and aim to encourage emergent historians to acquire skills, find their voice through engagement with a wide range of sources - material, textual, visual, and develop concepts through engagement with other disciplines. During the Covid Year I founded with colleagues from the University of Ghent an international network and seminar, the Belgian-British Medieval Urban History Network, and created the Medievalists in Lockdown! group of QM medievalists and their Colleagues. I am keen to support collaborations and interaction between scholars. Visual and material expressions of ideas and practices.Gender, identity and the body: ideas as well as practices.Delivering the Wiles Lectures in 2017 led me to develop research on attitudes to strangers in medieval cities.
In all my work I seek to understand issues of identity, community, and gender, the boundaries of cooperation and the threat of violence. I have sought to understand the message of Christian charity as practised in medieval communities to explore the meanings of the arch-sacrament, the Eucharist to explore new narratives about Jews, which turned into public social dramas. My research has introduced new approaches to the study of social relations in the predominantly religious cultures of medieval Europe.
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