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I spend most of my time working towards my doctorate in the library, at my part-time job at a cinema, and at the theatre. After I graduated with a BA from Cambridge, I spent six months in Paris, and then I worked various odd-jobs at home in Leicester: tutoring, waitressing, working at a café, retail, and volunteering at museums and events. Then I moved to Stratford-on-Avon to do a Master's degree at the Shakespeare Institute (part of the University of Birmingham), while I worked at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust bookshop. I was awarded a distinction for my MA, and am now enrolled on a funded PhD at Oxford Brookes. My PhD focusses on women, the moon, and mental disorder in early modern drama.

During my Master's degree, I was lucky enough to do a lot of theatre, including co-writing and directing my own plays, and stage-managing and acting in various other productions. I'm in the preliminary stages of putting on a show in Oxford with undergraduate students, which will be related to my PhD.