I currently hold an honorary research position within the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where I also completed a BSc in Earth Sciences in 2005. This followed onto a PhD titled “Macroevolutionary patterns of body-size evolution in the Class Trilobita (Arthropoda)” in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, with a year spent in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum in London.