An amateur urbanist, Sophie has spent more than a decade exploring and falling in love with cities around the world. She spent her student years in Dublin and left with a BA in English Literature and History from Trinity College. From there she headed off to the City of Light, where she did an MA in Paris Studies at the University of London in Paris and started working for Context. Her work on 19th-century Paris was the beginning of her passion for city planning, and her MA thesis on the relationship between the French capital and Algeria sparked an interest in immigration and its impact on cities and urban issues. After a couple of years in the southern-hemisphere cities of Melbourne and Wellington, Sophie moved back to the UK and is enjoying applying everything she’s learned about cities to her research into London’s urban history.