Heritage Partnerships Coordinator, University of Oxford
Rachel is a historian of late medieval Britain with specialist expertise in women’s and gender history, material culture and the built environment. She has wide-ranging experience of bringing women's histories to specialist and wider audiences through academic publications, media appearances and collaborative projects with community groups and the Heritage sector. Following research fellowships at the universities of Edinburgh and York, including a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, since 2022 Rachel has been the Heritage Partnerships Coordinator at the University of Oxford, where she is responsible for developing and nurturing research partnerships between the University's world-leading researchers and external Heritage organisations. Rachel's first monograph on elite women’s residences in late medieval and early Tudor England is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the Advisory Board for the Centre for the History of People, Place and Community at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.
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