This research examines resistance to trans inclusion in sports by testing assumptions about fairness. A survey experiment shows that people with negative attitudes become more supportive when fairness concerns are explicitly addressed in low-threat sports. The findings suggest opposition is not uniform and that challenging underlying assumptions can meaningfully increase support for inclusion.

This talk examines how nineteenth-century British novels portray domestic violence as a necessary tool for women to escape the restrictive inside–outside gender model. Using Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, it shows how violent acts disrupt patriarchal structures, granting women agency, identity, and a path toward equality.

My research examines how modern fiction eroticises Jack the Ripper, transforming a historical murderer into a sexual fantasy figure. By tracing this trend from 19th-century sensational reporting to today’s “Fifty Shades”–influenced culture, the study explores how sexuality, empowerment, violence, and fantasy intersect — and questions where society draws the line.

This research explores the hidden lives of Mills & Boon’s mid-20th-century women authors using 70,000 archival letters. Despite selling millions of books, they faced stigma, wrote under pseudonyms, and often apologised for their work. The project reveals their cultural impact and repositions them as historically significant contributors to post-war society.