I am Assistant Professor in Innovation Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex. I'm currently the recipient of a British Academy Innovation Fellowship. For this project, I am working with the Evaluation Task Force in the UK Cabinet Office to improve evaluation for local growth policies. From 2021 to 2023, I was a research fellow at City-REDI and WM-REDI at the University of Birmingham. I got my PhD from the department of geography and environment at the London School of Economics, where I'm also a visiting fellow. My research interests are innovation and its role for regional development, labour markets and inequality. I am on the editorial board of Spatial Economic Analysis as early career editor.
My paper on technological invention and local labour markets was published in Research Policy and has been covered by Research Professional.