Katherine is a fourth-year, part-time, LAHP-funded PhD student in the Department of English at King’s College London, with a background in early modern studies (MA in Shakespeare and Creativity at the Shakespeare Institute). Her research, supervised by Professor Lucy Munro and Dr Sarah Lewis focuses on the impact of early modern institutions—specifically apprenticeship, education, and the family—on the developing selfhood, agency, and identity of children. Katherine's interests include early modern concepts of freedom and the self, early modern theatre and performance history, boy actors, impressment, childhood studies, service, apprenticeship, humanistic education, and actor training. In addition to her research, Katherine is currently co-editing the Department of English's Blog and is teaching on the Early Modern Literary Culture module at King’s. Katherine was also one of the organisers of the Globe and Shakespeare Centre London conference in May 2024.