Ismini is a Lecturer in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.

She studied for her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she completed a thesis in 2014 examining the career of Philip Skippon, commander of the infantry in the New Model Army. Since then, she has worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Exeter on a Wellcome Trust-funded project examining early modern medical practitioners, during which she researched the careers of practitioners in Civil War armies. Following this, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, when she joined Civil War Petitions as the Project Manager, before the project moved to the University of Oxford.

Ismini has published a monograph on Philip Skippon, Philip Skippon and the British Civil Wars: The "Christian Centurion" (Abingdon, 2020) and an edited collection, New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War (Solihull, 2016). She has also published articles and contributed chapters to collections on various military and medical topics relating to the Civil Wars. Ismini is President of the Cromwell Association and a trustee of The Battlefields Trust, as well as having acted as an academic advisor to the National Army Museum, National Civil War Centre and Cromwell Museum.

Away from work, Ismini enjoys running to keep fit, supporting Ipswich Town and English cricket, and other such hopeless causes.

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