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 enterprising approaches to creative practice, including responding to different public contexts and audiences. I encourage collaborative environments for students and support live briefs within my teaching.

My practice-based research investigates how photographic practice can foster meaningful relationships with partners and communities, as explored within 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 Kielder Observatory, a dark-sky charity and visitor attraction. Funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (AHRC), this research tested what mutual benefits emerge when a creative 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 creative encounters with dark skies in Northumberland to support Kielder Observatory’s charitable vision.