I joined the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at University of Bath as a Lecturer in Feburary 2024. Prior to my position at Bath, I worked as a  Research Fellow on the ERC funded TWICEASGOOD Project at University of Exeter and was affiliated with the Centre for Computational Social Science from 2022-2024. I received my PhD in Political Science at Rice University in May 2022.

My research focuses on women's political representation in a global context. I study women's representation from both the perspective of elite and mass. Additionally, I am also interested in the causes and consequences of mass partisan polarization and how this intersects with women's representation. My substantive research is accompanied by a continual effort to develop the use of quantitative and computation research methods within Political Science. My work has been published in Legislative Studies Quarterly, the American Political Science Review, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Latin American Research Review, and is forthcoming at Politics & Gender.

My research project (with Hilde Coffé) "Value for Vote" is currently working to bring together practitioners, civil society organizations, and academics to understand the financial barriers that women candidates face when running for office in the UK. Specifically, we hope to bring together individuals from across different organizations in a roundtable event to produce an evidence-based policy brief that will offer suggestions for supporting women candidates running for office. This project has been funded by an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account grant.

My article "Can't we all just get along? How women MPs can ameliorate affective polarization in Western publics" (with James Adams, David Bracken, Noam Gidron, Will Horne, and Diana O'Brien) was awarded the 2023 CSES GESIS Klingemann Prize for best paper using CSES data. The findings from this research have been featured in several public-facing outlets including The Guardian, the Let’s Talk Polarization podcast, and the American Political Science Association's Public Scholarship Program's newsletter Political Science Now. 

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