Profile
Solicitor (non-practising)
Secretary of the Ostracod Group, The Micropalaeontological Society
Working title
- Climate variability during MIS 11 in Britain
Research interests
- Freshwater ostracods, stable isotope analysis, Quaternary, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
PhD research
My aim is to create a high-resolution record of climate and environmental change throughout MIS 11, using ostracods from lake sediments from the iconic Quaternary site: Marks Tey in Essex. I am adopting a multiple-proxy approach to ostracod analysis, including faunal assemblage and stable isotope analyses, focussing on the transition from the interglacial to the next cold stage.
Supervisors
- Professor David Horne, School of Geography, QMUL
- Professor Simon Lewis, School of Geography, QMUL
- Professor Jonathan Holmes, Department of Geography, UCL
Funding
- Queen Mary University of London Principal’s Studentship (2013-2016)
- Queen Mary University of London Postgraduate Research Fund (2015)
- Quaternary Research Association New Research Workers’ Award (2015)
- The Micropalaeontological Society Grant-in-aid (2015)
- The Micropalaeontological Society student bursary (2014)
Background
- I trained and practised as a City solicitor, specialising in commercial insurance litigation, before seeing the light and re-training in Geosciences.
Work background
- 2004-2008: Denton Wilde Sapte, Senior Associate
- 2001-2004: Denton Wilde Sapte, Solicitor
- 1998-2000: Norton Rose, Solicitor
- 1996-1998: Norton Rose, Trainee Solicitor
Academic background
- 2013 to date: PhD at Queen Mary University of London
- 2012-2013: MSc in Aquatic Science, UCL (Distinction)
Dissertation: Multiple-proxy approach to determine how an early Holocene cooling event is recorded in a lake archive - 2008-2012: BSc in Geosciences, Open University (First Class)
- 1994-1995: Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, York (Distinction)
- 1991-1994: BA in Jurisprudence (law), Oxford University, St Catherine’s College