Zoe is a DPhil candidate in Sociology, supported by the ESRC Grand Union DTP and Nuffield College. 

Zoe's research focuses on contemporary shifts in gender relations, including gendered political polarization and its effects on contact between men and women. She is also interested in the socioeconomic dimensions of gender inequality and their relationship with gender-based violence. She is supervised by Dr Lindsay Richards and Professor Man-Yee Kan.

Zoe completed her MSc in Sociology at Oxford in 2023-24, achieving a distinction. Her MSc thesis was titled 'Changing Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence in Scotland: Decomposing Shifts in Victim Blaming and Perpetrator Culpability (2014-2019)', and analyzed changes in attitudes towards rape in the context of the MeToo movement and Scottish policy intervention. She holds a BA (Hons) in Human, Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (2020-23).