Since October 2007 he has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is also Secretary of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and reviews editor for its Bulletin.

His current research focusses on the uses of mathematics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, while his doctoral work examined mathematical theories of music from that period.

His publications examine several topics in those areas. Two books - a co-edited edition of the writings of the musical theorist John Birchensha, and a book based on his doctoral thesis - are currently in press, and he is working on a third, a textbook entitled How to Read Historical Mathematics. A full list of his conference papers, with some abstracts, can be found here.

His other interests include playing the bassoon, both in chamber groups and amateur orchestras, and composing and arranging. He lives in Oxford with his wife, Jessica, who is also a historian.

He can be contacted on enquiries at benjaminwardhaugh.co.uk