I graduated with a PhD in Byzantine art history from Queens University of Belfast in 2002. My thesis looked at images of spectacle in the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript and explored the way in which public events such as entertainment, punishments, victory celebrations and relic ceremonies were constructed in relation to the textuall description. From 2002-2005 I was a Research Fellow in the AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History at Sussex and was responsible for the construction of the database of the visual contents of the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript. From May 2006-Aug 2009 I was the Research Facilitator in the Sussex Institute at the University and during 2007-2011 I was the Network Facilitator on the Leverhulme International Network of the Composition of Byzantine Mosaic Glass Tesserae which is housed in the Department of Art History at Sussex. I am now a Research Development Manager in Research and Enterprise.