Academic posts & education
Grants & prizes
Community leadership
Public Engagement with local community groups, e.g. LightMakers, a collaboration to engage local young in the science of the aurora with a local artist and local charity Escape2Make. For 5 weeks, 12 young people met every week to creatively engage with science and produce artworks that now adorn the yard of a local charity and community space (2026).
Reviewer for Nature Astronomy, Nature Communications, AGU Advances, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Annales Geophysicae, Space Weather, Radio Science, and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science.
Former elected member of MIST Council, where I developed and implemented the community's first EDI policy, organised annual conferences and sessions e.g. at the National Astronomy Meeting. Regular session convener at AGU Fall Meeting (2023), National Astronomy Meeting (2019), and ICS-14 (2019). Member of the SuperDARN Data Analysis, Data Standards, and Spacecraft Scheduling Working Groups. Member of the ESA/CAS SMILE Ground-based and Additional Science Working Group. External PhD examiner for the University of Southampton (UK) and University of Bergen (Norway).
Co-founder and chair (since 2021) of the MIST Awards Taskforce, a national EDI initiative in space physics. Our taskforce has overseen over 80 nominations to national and international awards, prizes and medals. We successfully lobbied for more inclusive practices around awards and prizes on national and international level and advise scientists on how to effectively nominate for awards, especially early-career scientists.
Founder of Lancaster University's women's network mentoring scheme (2024).
Teaching & supervision
Course lead for Space and Auroral Physics (PHYS390, yearly ~30-45 students) at Lancaster University. Primary supervisor of Ned Colville (PhD, 2025–present, Lancaster). Co-supervisor of Jack Bell (PhD, 2025–present, Lancaster Environment Centre). Secondary supervisor of Dan Naylor (PhD, 2024–present, Lancaster). Previously co-supervised PhD student Dr Elliott Day (2021–2024, with A. Grocott) and two Masters students in Statistics. Undergraduate laboratory supervision and small group teaching at Lancaster University (online; 2020) and the University of Leicester (2013–2017).
Selected media
Expert commentary for BBC Television (North West Tonight, August 2026), BBC Radio (Scotland, Cumbria, Lancashire), CNET (2026), BBC News (2025), The Telegraph (2024), Business Insider (2024), Washington Post (2022), and Physics World (2021). Feature article for BBC Sky at Night Magazine (2023). Interviews on BBC North West Tonight, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Cumbria, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Leicestershire, and the Evening Standard Leaders Podcast.
Podcast interviews with Astrophiz Podcast (2026), Lancaster Museum: 100 years, 100 Objects - Greenwood's Device (2023) and Royal Astronomical Society Supermassive Podcast (2021).