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Selected publications

Publication date - 2024/25

Book chapter (Forthcoming): Kola Nut entry in A Brief History of Stuff - published by the Science Museum Group

The Science Museum Group is publishing an edited popular book called A Brief History of Stuff which is due to be released soon in coming years. Based on my research as the London Science Museum's Research Curator, I contributed an entry to the book on the global history of the kola nut, an inconspicuous fruit found growing across Western African tropical forests which has historically held a myriad of indigenous and colonial functions.

Publication date - 2024/25

Article Publication (forthcoming): Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm's The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain

This is the publication found in my 'Other Research Project' page for the Anglo-Japanese Visions of Science transnational project. This article will be published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London.

November - 2021

Review of Peter Harrison & Jon Roberts' Science Without God? Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism (2019)

I reviewed the book Science Without God (2019) for the Science and Christian Belief Journal - Volume 33 (Issue 2)

2021

Article Publication: Scientific Uniformity or "Natural" Divine Action: Shifting The Boundaries of Law in the Nineteenth Century

This article is part of a special issue for the Zygon journal featuring six other scholars. In this special issue we aim to address a gap in the scholarly literature, namely the rise of German criticism and its relation to the sciences. My own article focuses on a group that I call the 'Neo-Newtonians' who responded to the problem of miracles amidst the rise of German Biblical criticism.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12678

2021

Article Publication: ' A Victorian hope for aerial navigation: Argyll as a theorist of flight and the first president of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.

This paper is on the establishment of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866), with a focus on the first president, the 8th Duke of Argyll, and his ornithological work to uncover the connection between bird flight and aerial navigation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160932721000089

April 2020

Review of Matthew Stanley's Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science (2015)

I reviewed this book for the April issue of the Science and Christian Belief Journal - Volume 32 (Issue 1)

March 2020

INSBS article - Uniformity, biblical criticism, and supernatural activity in the 19th century

I wrote this short piece on the history of miracles for the International Network studying Science and Belief in Society. 
https://scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/2020/03/24/uniformity-biblical-criticism-and-supernatural-activity-in-the-19th-century/

2018

Winner of Christians in Science Student Essay Competition

I was the winner of the 2018 CiS student Essay competition, where the prize was £500 plus my essay published. The topic was, Which historical aspect of the relationship [between science and religion] do you think as been the most significant?:

November 2019

Review of B. Billingsley and M. Nassaji, Exploring Secondary School Students' Stances on the Predictive and Explanatory Power of Science. (Science & Education)

This is a review that I wrote on research in secondary school science and religious education undertaken by Professor B. Billingsley and M. Nassaji in 2019:

Published Work: Experience

Publication date - October 2023

Science Museum Group Blog Post: Black History Month blog post - self-led trail across Science Museum galleries

For Black History Month 2023 I contributed to a new Science Museum Group blog post which is a self-led trail across the galleries of the Science Museum. The purpose of this self-led trail is to highlight the hidden/marginalised narratives of black individuals and communities in the history of science, technology, and medicine using objects and displays across the London Science Museum.

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/from-lightbulbs-to-space-a-black-history-month-tour-of-the-science-museum/ 

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