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Slightly updated #introduction: I'm UK-based (a Londoner, now living on #isleofwight)
I did a first degree in #Classics, then worked/didn't work as an actor for a while, during which time I got really interested in #folk #folksong.
Started to do #fieldwork, realised I needed to think harder about it so did an MA in #folklore. Liked it. A lot.
Did a PhD on Contemporary Belief in #Ghosts - https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/7184.
Currently on the Council of the Folklore Society, Associate Editor of its journal Folklore, & on the editorial board of #FolkMusic Journal.
I've written on #ghostlore, folklore about #rats, #cannibalism at sea, tongue twisters (inter alia), and (increasingly) folklore's history. Was doing this through folkloresque representation in #folkhorror, crime novels & (most recently) #DrWho, then finally just got on with doing it as historical research.