Natalie is a College Teaching Officer in Human, Social and Political Sciences at Fitzwilliam and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge. Her research is concerned with activism and party politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Her doctoral work followed a network of young, left-wing, anti-austerity and human rights activists in Dublin, focusing on the relationship between their experience of the 2008 recession and housing crisis, their precarious labour in the creative sectors and their views of the fault lines in liberal democratic politics. Her current work examines youth left-wing support for the political party, Sinn Féin, and cross-border activist mobilisations after Brexit. She is also undertaking research on how tenants build a sense of place and belonging in social and affordable housing estates in the UK. 

Department Webpage -  https://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/natalie-morningstar 

Centre for Science and Policy profile: https://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/natalie-morningstar/