Research

Alice's wide-ranging research focuses on the relationship between investigations of nature, the expansion of the state and commerce, and cultural perceptions of progress in science and society. Her work can be grouped into three areas:

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Early Modern Cultures of Collecting

Exploring diverse interactions between scholarly and commercial cultures of knowledge collection and exchange. Focusing on how social change and financial innovation influenced the management of resources, the assessment of value, and the generation of credit and trust across interconnected private and public spaces.  

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Medical and Public Education Networks

The relationship between early museums, imperialism, and civic society, past and present: linking industrial identity, changing urban space, and the creation of material and intellectual heritage that was self-consciously separate from ‘metropolitan learning’.

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Science and Finance

Since 2019, Alice has been working as part of the Newton Project on Isaac Newton's time as Warden and then Master of the Royal Mint. Her research examines the scientific, financial, and administrative aspects of Newton’s work, placing them into broader social, political and economic contexts and networks. 

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