I am interested in understanding the role of changes in size, density and interconnectedness of past hunter-gatherer populations, and ecological change in determining rates and patterning of cultural innovation and diversification. 

I have recently joined the CoMsAfrica Project, an international group focussed on performing continental scale comparisons of Middle Stone Age lithic technology via the establishment of replicable methods and protocols of analysis.

I am working on projects that explore the variability between different climate models and their coherence with proxy records. It involves ongoing collaboration with the developers of the pastclim R packge in the Evolutionary Ecology Group at the University of Cambridge. 

Since May 2023, I have been involved with the NEANDEROOTS project, working specifically on modelling niche shifts of basal Neanderthal populations in Western Europe, and how these may relate to changes in technology observed in the archaeological record.

My research explores the variability of pointed technology made by the earliest human populations across Africa. This has involved the generation of a large database of standardised photographs and measurements, as well as data-led inter and intra-regional comparisons.

I am working on a range of projects identifying and exploring the role of ecological refugia in human evolution, such as how to define refugia, how core versus marginal landscapes influence variability in the archaeological record, and how refugia impact diversity within and between closely-related species.