Professional activities

Selected Professional Activities

Grant Application Assessment

External Post-submission (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), AHRC Peer Review College, 2013 - present) (Grant Application Assessment)

Internal Administrative or Committee Role

REF Lead, History Unit of Assessment (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
Director, Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
Member of Steering Group, Heritage Research Theme (University, 2017 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)

Professional Body Membership

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (President, 2018 - 2020) (Professional Body Membership)

Conference Roles

International Symposium on the History of the Information Society, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Copenhagen University, 2016)
City Readers Symposium, by Invitation (New York Society Library, 2016)
Knowledge: Community, Communication and Conflict (Postgraduate History Conference), by Invitation (UCL, 2016)
Book History Research Group Seminar, by Invitation (Open University/Institute of English Studies, 2016)
History seminar, by Invitation (Dundee University, 2016)
Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture Seminar, by Invitation (Ghent University, 2015)
Women's Networks in History: Economic History Society Workshop, by Invitation (University of Nottingham, 2015)
Postgraduate Reading Weekend, by Invitation (University of St Andrews, 2015)
John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World, by Invitation (University of Manchester, 2015)
Centre for Anglophone Studies, by Invitation (University of Paris VII, 2014)
Research Methods in Book History Workshop, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (AHRC Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, 2014)
Book History Research Network, by Invitation (University of Leicester, 2014)
Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar, by Invitation (University of York, 2013)
Centre for the History of Material Texts Seminar, by Invitation (University of Cambridge, 2013)
Scottish Romanticism Research Group Seminar, by Invitation (University of Glasgow, 2013)
Keynote Speech, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Book, Text and Place Research Group, Bath Spa University, 2011)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Yale University, 2011)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, 2011)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2010)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of Stirling, 2010)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Universities of Oxford and Dundee, 2010)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of Manchester, 2009)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of Edinburgh, 2009)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Institute of English Studies, University of London, 2009)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of Reading, 2009)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of Liverpool, 2008)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (SOCLAS, University of Liverpool, 2008)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2008)
Invitation to Speak, by Invitation (University of St Andrews, Scottish History Seminar, 2005)

Editorships

Eighteenth-Century Worlds Book Series, LUP (Founding Series Co-Editor, 2011 - present)
Library of the Written Word (Brill) (Editorial Board, 2011 - present)
Library of the Written Word Book Series (Brill) (Acting Editor-in-chief, 2014 - 2015)
JISC Historic Books (Advisory Board Member)
Knowledge and Communication in the Enlightenment World (Boydell & Brewer) (Founding Series Co-Editor, 2016 - present)
Library & Information History (Editor-in-Chief, 2012 - 2016)

Examination Roles

MMU, PhD (2021)
University of Stirling, PhD (2021)
University of York, MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies 2019- (2022)
University of St Andrews, MA (Hons) in Modern History 2016- (2021)
University of York, PhD (2018)
University of Plymouth, PhD (2017)
Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, PhD (2017)
Open University, PhD (2017)
McGill University Montreal (Canada), PhD (2013)
Deakin University, Melbourne, PhD (2012)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

Advisory Board on Western Sydney University Mapping Print, Charting Enlightenment Project (2017 - 2018)
Advisory Board, MEDIATE project, Radboud University, Netherlands (2017 - 2018)
Advisory Board, Eighteenth-Century Arts Education Research Network, University of Glasgow (2017 - 2018)

Grant Application Assessments

External Post-submission (UK Research and Innovation, 2021 - present)
External Post-submission (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, 2018 - present)
External Post-submission (Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), AHRC Peer Review College, 2013 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

REF Lead, History Unit of Assessment
Director of Research, Department of History
Director, Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre
Funder Champion: British Academy
Academic Lead, 'Reading, Texts and Archives' Research Cluster
Family Friendly Advisor (Paternity) (School / Institute, 2018 - 2020)
Member of Steering Group, Heritage Research Theme (University, 2017 - present)

Organisations I have been associated with

New York Society Library (2013 - present)
Liverpool Athenaeum (2013 - present)
Victoria Gallery & Museum (2013 - 2016)
Liverpool Medical Instititute (2013 - present)
National Museums Liverpool (Decorative Arts Dept.)
Reading Sheffield (2013 - 2015)
The Reader Organisation
Loyola University Chicago (2013 - 2015)
Dr Williams's Library (2013 - 2015)
The Newberry Library, Chicago (2013 - 2015)
BBC Scotland (2013)
Samuel Johnson Society of Lichfield
Association of Independent Libraries
Norton Priory

Professional Body Memberships

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (President, 2018 - 2020)
Royal Historical Society (Fellow, 2010 - present)