Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2009 to 2011)
Visiting Fellow (Michaelmas and Hilary Terms), All Souls College (from 2004 to 2005)
Contributing Editor, Crafts and occasional advisor to the Crafts Council Collection; independent scholar (from 1987 to 2006)
Writer/Sub-Editor, Country Life; also Freelance Writer/Journalist, specialising in applied and decorative arts for The Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times (from 1982 to 1987)
Editorial Work, Quarto (literary magazine), Vole (ecological monthly) and freelance journalism (from 1979 to 1981)
Undergraduate, Newnham College, Cambridge (from 1976 to 1979)