I’m a social and cultural geographer interested in the relationship between art and society. I’m fascinated by Geography’s relationship with art, and I’m particularly engaged in exploring the tension between the potential of art to creatively and critically engage with pressing social issues in the world, but also its ability to perpetuate social inequalities. I’m also interested in the geographies of town planning, specifically the tension between policy practice and people’s lived experience of places. Central to my research ethos is interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues within academia, as well as research and practice-based collaborations with urban, environmental and arts practitioners.

After studying Human Geography at Leeds Metropolitan University, I moved to London to start a postgraduate scholarship at Royal Holloway. There I did an MA in Cultural Geography (Research), and a PhD entitled ‘Participatory art and the cultural geographies of encounter’. Before joing Teesside University as Lecturer in Geography I held academic positions at Royal Holloway, Leeds Beckett University, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, and University of Reading.

• Geographies of art
• Cultural geography
• Social geography
• Art theory
• Urban planning