I am a storyteller and biologist by training (b. 1972, London. UK). I am currently Watershed's inaugural Researcher in Residence, and mutual study partner to UWE's Visiting Professor, Jo Lansdowne who is also Executive Producer of Watershed's Pervasive Media Studios. Over the next three years I am reinvigorating my creative writing practice through the lenses of self-love, queering metabolism and epistemic justice.

As an academic, I have published several journal articles, book chapters and policy pieces across disciplines spanning design, creative technology, biology, public engagement, racial justice and equity in research funding. In 2024 I completed two research projects in partnership with Watershed, who led on commissioning two arts led inquiries into creative technology, focused on a just transition and AI Automation. As Wallscourt Associate Professor in Immersive Media I am a member of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, in the School of Arts, UWE Bristol.

As co-editor of book series Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures with Dr Adi Kunstman (Digital Politics, MMU) and Dr Liu Xi (Gender studies, Karlstad University) we are inviting proposals, in particular from early career researchers, for new books over the next 5 years.

I am co-director of Squirrel Nation with artist, designer and researcher, Caroline Ward, making work that considers co-existence as an ethic. Squirrel Nation have held fellowships and residencies with Manchester International Festival/ Jerwood, INIVA/ Stuart Hall Library and JUSTAI/ Ada Lovelace Institute. Squirrel Nation are alumni of the Stuart Hall Artist and Scholars Network.

I am an accredited Relational Dynamic 1st Coach.

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