I am Senior Lecturer in Photography at the School of Digital Arts and teach within the BA (Hons) Photography and MA Photography programmes. I encourage students to explore how creative practice can productively engage with and impact audiences when intervening in contexts and situations. I encourage collaboration and support live briefs within my teaching, most recently through #TimeAfterTime, a project creating action on e-waste with the environmental charity Hubbub and Virgin Media O2.

My practice-based research investigates how photographic practice can foster meaningful relationships with partners and communities, as explored through my practice-based PhD Close Encounters: A Practice-based Photography Exploration in Collaboration with a Science Communication Organisation in Northumberland International Dark Sky Park (University of Sunderland, 2024). Investigated in partnership with the dark-sky charity Kielder Observatory, this research was funded by the AHRC’s National Productivity Investment Fund, seeking to address areas of the UK government’s Industrial Strategy. The research learned what mutual benefits emerge when a photographic practitioner and dark sky visitor attraction collaborate. I listened to dark-sky communities, made photographs informed by stories and displayed creative outputs catalysing new encounters with Northumberland’s protected dark skies.