My research explores creative AI and its influence on audiences, using speculative design methods and cultural criticism. I teach at undergraduate level and supervise PhDs in narrative media, games and digital media culture. I’m a member of both the Manchester Games Centre and SODA’s Speculative Technologies research centres.
My most recent research project was Listening In: How Audio Surveillance became Artificial Intelligence (2026), (co-author) published by Bloomsbury Academic, which reevaluates the history of AI as a transformation in how we listen and how we are listened in on. My practice-led research to date has included Innovate UK funded ‘An Audience with a Hero’ interactive documentary, the ‘Algowritten’ project on bias in AI narratives, which won a Mozilla Foundation Technology Award, and the Children of Talos project, which explores AI-driven generative storytelling as a ‘speculative history machine’.
I am the founder and co-lead of Storytellers and Machines, an annual event series exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on contemporary creative practices, at SODA and the Manchester School of Art.
