I completed my undergraduate degree Psychology and Philosophy (2011), followed by a 1+3 ESRC-funded Masters in Psychological Research (2012) and PhD (2015) - all at the University of Sheffield. I then took up a postdoctoral position at the University of York with Prof Jonny Smallwood and a second position with Prof Peter Totterdell at the University of Sheffield. I spent a year working at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge as a member of their Impact team (public engagement) before being appointed as a lecturer at Essex in December 2019.