Sarah completed a BA (Hons) in History in 2017, and was awarded the Thomas Davis History Prize, graduating with the highest overall marks on the course. She then completed her MPhil History in 2018, her research focusing on the contribution of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force to British Intelligence during the Second World War. She gained her PhD in May 2022 at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her thesis examined the role of the women of the WWII Allied naval services in the emergence of modern warfare, focusing on their contributions to Allied intelligence and communications during the Battle of the Atlantic and the War in the Pacific.

Sarah is currently a lecturer at King’s College London, where she is based at the UK Defence Academy in the Defence Studies Department. She is also a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of History, where she is a member of Kellogg College. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Laughton Naval History and Maritime Strategy Unit and the Freeman Air and Space Institute, and a member of the King’s Intelligence and Security Group.

As well as researching and teaching, Sarah enjoys making history accessible by engaging in media work and writing. She has worked in both television and radio, with the BBC, Channel Four, ITV, Channel 5 and Sky History.

She has also worked with BBC Radio Oxford, BBC History Extra, Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast, the We Have Ways Podcast with Al Murray and James Holland, the Choiceology Podcast from Charles Schwab, and with various other podcasts and productions. See the media tab for more information on Sarah’s media work.