This is my personal webspace where I can disseminate my research and generally explain who I am and what I do.
I currently work as Assistant Professor at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense. I am part of the Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Institut for Kultur- og Sprogvidenskaber as an historian of medicine and welfare.
In May 2021, I completed a Wellcome Early Carreer Fellowship which focused on the rhetoric around the sick note and medical certification in Britain from the foundation of the NHS to the present day. This was conducted at the University of Warwick, and resulted in the book Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Between SDU and Warwick, I was a research fellow at the University of Birmingham's School of Social Policy working on John Mohan (et al)'s Border Crossings project, which investigated the boundaries between state and voluntantary provision of healthcare in the NHS-era.
Prior to all that, I was at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, working on Alex Mold's Placing the Public in Public Health project. From this post, I wrote a book on the history of British vaccination since the 1940s with Manchester University Press. My PhD thesis, completed in 2013 at LSTHM, was on UK disability policy from the mid-twentieth century to the present day.
Aside from my university academic work, I have also written a briefing with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology on disability testing, and provided written and oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's inquiry into Statutory Sick Pay.