Currently I am a part-time Research Fellow in the School of Law and Education at the University of Hertfordshire. I am an Early Career Researcher who completed my PhD at the University of Hertfordshire in 2019. My doctoral research explored the experience of struggling as a teacher and I used collage with my teacher participants. I define struggling as a ‘temporary fractured state’ and have since written about the importance of love and care in education settings. 

Recent project work has focussed on distributed leadership, specifically supporting educational leaders - through the use of collage and gesture response - to strengthen capacity for collaborative leadership (ENABLES, 2019-2021). In 2023 I published a chapter in the Handbook on Leadership in Education on using arts-based and embodied methods to research leadership in education.  

For me it is important to offer creativity, reflexivity and sensitivity in everything I do as an educator; I am committed to establishing respectful and meaningful relationships and strive to communicate with compassion. My current role is with the AECED project (aesthetic and embodied learning for democracy; 2023-2026) where I can combine my interest in innovative approaches to teaching and learning with my experience of using arts-based and embodied research approaches.