My research interests cover British cinema, controversies and censorship, archives, film and history. I have published on British film and cinema, cinemagoing and audiences, regulation and classification and the work of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and publications include, Censoring the 1970s: The BBFC and the Decade that Taste Forgot, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), Capital, Culture and Creativity: The British Film Industry in the 1970s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Using Film as a Source (Manchester University Press, 2015).

My fourth monograph will be published with Manchester University Press in Autumn 2024 and explores local and regional film censorship across the UK. I have also published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Media History, Historical Research and the Journal of British Cinema and Television.  

I am a member of the EUscreen Foundation, a European consortium of archives, academics and technical partners which explores aspects of digital heritage, access and preservation, and a member of the Northern Ireland Moving Image Heritage & Archive working group. I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture.

Teaching

I currently convene and teach the following modules: 

• Introduction to Film Studies 1 (FLM1001) level 1
• British Cinema: Nation, Identity and Industry (FLM2026) level 2
• Film Cultures and Fandom (FLM3035) level 3
• Censorship, Regulation and Audiences (MA)