I am an Associate Professor in Built Environment Education at Northumbria University and Lead for Educational Partnerships, where I lead the strategic development of practice-integrated higher education across Architecture, Surveying and Construction.

My work centres on designing education solutions that integrate academic learning with professional practice, positioning the workplace as a site of enquiry, judgement and knowledge production. Drawing on over twenty-five years in industry, I operate at the interface between education, industry and regulation, shaping how these systems work together.

Through my role in Educational Partnerships, I lead collaboration with further education, employers, professional bodies and sector organisations to co-design curricula, develop mentoring capability and create scalable, impactful, models of professional education. This work enables sustained cooperation between universities and industry, moving beyond transactional engagement towards shared responsibility for learning.

My research explores the structural conditions required to support this integration, focusing on curriculum coherence, assessment design and employer–university partnership. This informs both institutional practice and national policy through my contributions to Trailblazer groups and advisory work with RIBA, RICS and CIOB.

Collectively, my work advances 'apprenticeship' as a rigorous and inclusive form of higher education that connects learning with practice, widens participation, and supports the development of future professionals across the Built Environment sector.