I am a scholar and writer based at King’s College London, where I am Senior Lecturer in Political Theory (Associate Professor) in the Department of Political Economy.

My writing focuses on democratic theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, and the history of European social and political thought (especially of 19th- and 20th-century Germany). I am currently writing a global history and philosophy of trade unions for Allen Lane. My first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. In the fall of 2023, I will begin a new four-year project, Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy (DERISK), funded by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (successfully evaluated for the ERC Starting Grant and funded by UKRI as part of the UKRI Horizon Europe guarantee).