Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am interested in supervising projects exploring waiting, affect and emotion, the sensorial (particularly olfaction), or matter and materiality in relation to everyday life. Those wanting to work with social research methods are particularly welcome. Email me to arrange an informal chat about your prospective project or ambition to undertake a PhD.
Willing to speak to media
My research interests include:
- the waiting body
- affect, feelings and emotion
- disorientation
- the sensory (in particular olfactory stimuli)
- matter and materiality
- embodied research methods.
I am an interdisciplinary artist, designer and human geography researcher, currently Assistant Professor in Communication Design at Northumbria University. I graduated with a Fine Art BA (hons) from Camberwell School of Art in 1992 and have exhibited since as an installation artist in the UK and internationally.
I retrained in Design for Print in 1997 and practiced as a graphic designer for nine years, developing design for web skills as that new technology emerged and expanded. From 2006, I worked for eight years at Cardiff Metropolitan University as part of the Design Wales strand of PDR an international design research centre. During that time I became an advisor about the design sector for the Welsh Government, sector skills councils, and organisations such as the UK Design Council. This role included two terms as chair of the UK Design Alliance. In 2010 I gained an MA in Design by Practice at University of Wales Newport.
In 2018 I was enabled to pursue a long-term interest in Human Geography theory by gaining an ESRC scholarship to study for a PhD at Durham University which I completed in 2023. I am drawing on my Human Geography knowledge and social research methods experience in my teaching at Northumbria University.
Geography, PhD, Waiting Through Furlough: A Geography of Disorientation, Durham University
31 Oct 2018 → 15 Nov 2023
Award Date: 24 Mar 2024
Research Methods, PGCert, Durham University
1 Oct 2018 → 1 Aug 2019
Award Date: 1 Jun 2019
Design Studies, MA, Should Simulated Environments When Used as Empathic Design Tools be Considered Spaces or Places?, University of Wales, Newport
1 Oct 2009 → 31 Mar 2011
Award Date: 1 Jun 2011
Post Graduate Certificate in Education with Qualified Teacher Status, PGCE, Roehampton University
5 Sept 1998 → 1 Jun 1999
Award Date: 1 Jun 1999
Design Studies, BTEC Advanced Diploma
5 Sept 1997 → 1 Jun 1998
Award Date: 1 Jun 1998
Fine Art, BA (Hons), Camberwell School of Art
1 Oct 1989 → 1 Jun 1992
Award Date: 1 Jun 1992
Art and Design (other/general), Foundation Diploma, Gwent College of Higher Education, (Newport School of Art)
1 Oct 1987 → 1 Jun 1988
Award Date: 1 Jun 1988
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review