I am Professor of History and Education at the University of Lincoln (UK), where he has taught since 2013. I have worked on the historical writings of Isidore of Seville, monks and bishops in Visigothic Hispania, and the social functions of violence in late antiquity, publishing a monograph with Brill, The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain: Religion and Power in the Histories of Isidore of Seville (2012), and the co-edited volumes Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2020), A Companion to Isidore of Seville (Brill, 2019), Isidore of Seville and his reception in the early middle ages: Transmitting and transforming knowledge (Amsterdam University Press, 2016). He has held visiting fellowships at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, the Universidade NOVA Lisbon and the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His current project, The Unnamed, which is supported by a Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship, explores the role of anonymous and enslaved individuals in the making of the Church in late antique Iberia. He is also developing, with Dr Graham Barrett (Durham), a project to translate the church councils held in the Visigothic kingdom in the sixth and seventh centuries. He has also published widely on inquiry-based and digital pedagogies, including on the educational uses of video games, with his co-authored article "Actual history doesn't take place": Digital Gaming, Accuracy and Authenticity was published in Games Studies in 2021.