My undergraduate teaching concentrates on the period between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and covers Scotland, Britain and Europe. At levels 1 and 2 I offer ‘Religion, Death and Culture, c.1215-1517’ and ‘The Hundred Years War’. At Levels 3 and 4 my modules include ‘Medieval Religion, c.1215-1517’, ‘Renaissance Florence, c.1348-1527’ (both List 3) and ‘Edward I, Edward II and the Conquest of Britain, c.1286-1329’ (List 1).  At postgraduate level I teach modules on the MPhil in Medieval History and I am happy to supervise graduate students on most aspects of later medieval Scottish history and on various aspects of later medieval religion and the later medieval economy more generally.

Most of my research concerns later medieval Scotland and its links with other countries. I have explored commercial connections and migration, but also religious and cultural interactions, such as saintly cults and pilgrimages. I am currently writing a companion volume to Scotland and Europe which will examine the political and diplomatic links across both the insular and continental worlds. I am currently also Principal Investigator on the Irish Chancery Rolls Project and co-editor of The Scottish Historical Review.