Katie graduated with an undergraduate degree in History from the University of Southampton in 2023. Her interests include contemporary social history, usually with a focus on women but also what it meant to be young across time. Her undergraduate dissertation was titled ‘“It Makes Him Think He Deserves it”: The Emotions of the AIDS Crisis in 1980s Britain and Beyond’, which explored the role emotions had in memories of the AIDS epidemic in Britain. She has also extensively studied the Holocaust in a variety of lenses but has a particular interest in exploring female experience in these events.

Since August 2023, she has volunteered as an object handler at The Florence Nightingale Museum, helping bring to life the physical memory of the iconic nurse, as well as the impact on modern nursing today. She has also contributed to the temporary exhibition at the Southampton City Art Gallery: Royals to Ratcatchers. In her graduate life, she is aiming to draw on the hundreds of topics she touched upon at university, in order to find her own voice. Particular interests she wants to explore include the role women’s bodies have had over history both as the carrier of the future generations and its biggest threat.

Katie is currently pursuing a career in heritage and museums and spend a little bit too much time talking to her cat like it’s a baby.