I am an interdisciplinary researcher working across the humanities and social sciences. My research interests include contemporary life-writing, creative practice as research, critical pedagogies, and research cultures. I have recently begun a new programme, collaborating with Joanna Wheeler and Elleke Boehmer, funded by the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust, researching the ‘more-than-human’ stories of Antarctica. This research explores how the creative practice of story-making might challenge extractive thinking, integrate the arts and sciences, and evolve with digital media. I am also a co-investigator on Oxford University’s institutional project, Leading in Academic Research Environments, which is also funded by the Wellcome Trust.
I have published on the intersections of research and poetry, fiction and the archive, and I am the editor, with Elleke Boehmer, of the collection Life-Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances. Past research has included Ibali, which explored educational inclusion in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK through a creative, collaborative storytelling process. I am working on a monograph that explores shapes, forms, rhythms, and repetition in story-making.
I am also a poet, with work in Propel Magazine, The Rialto, bath magg, Shearsman Magazine, and Finished Creatures, and the anthology Science of the Seas, among others. I hold an MFA in poetry from the Manchester Writing School. In 2022, my collaboration ‘They multiply their wings’, with composer Christopher Cook, won the Rosamond Prize and in 2023 my poem ‘Islands in silence’ was highly commended in the Plough Prize.
Most of my teaching has been in the social sciences, co-convening the courses Perspectives and Debates in Qualitative Research and Rethinking Method. I have also taught, with Kate Kennedy, the Paper 6 course on Writing Lives.
