Martha is a PhD doctoral research student in higher education at Lancaster University, having previously been awarded a MSc in neuropharmacology at Nottingham Trent University. She worked as a research coordinator in the outreach team at Nottingham Trent University and was the Students’ Union president there in 2017-18.
She was a member of the WhatUni Student Advisory Board and a deputy panel chair for the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) subject pilot. She is currently a community governor at Djanogly Northgate Academy in Nottingham.