My approach to both practice and research is relational and non-extractive. Over 15+ years in international contexts, I have created shared spaces where multiple perspectives can be held without being collapsed into consensus, while building understanding across roles, disciplines, and institutional boundaries.
I achieve this through strategic approaches that understand engagement as part of longer-term relationships and wider institutional and societal impact. This involves designing programmes and processes that embed reflective practice, relational care, and iterative collaboration, so that engagement is not a one-off event but part of an ongoing conversation that strengthens partnerships, builds capacity, and creates lasting value for all participants.
Alongside this strategic perspective, I deploy practical interventions to make inclusion real. This includes taking over unusual or under-utilised spaces to that allow diverse contributors to have agency and voice, and unsettling organisational processes to embed non-traditional leadership and agency. Such approaches actively disrupt exclusive practices and hierarchies, enabling projects to surface alternative forms of expertise, support meaningful contributions from all participants, and create outcomes that are richer, more equitable, and more generative than conventional approaches allow.
Leadership & Professional Experience
My expertise is sought across industry, professional development and academia. Among other roles, I have served as a judge for the SXSW Sydney 2025 XR+ Award, a reviewer for the Science Foundation Ireland's Discover Programme (2024 - present), and a reviewer for academic conference programs, including Nomadic Image 22 and ISEA 2024. I am regularly invited to speak and run workshops internationally about my work, including, for example, delivering a workshop for MOD. (2019) on fostering innovation in public programs.
I have held advisory and representative leadership roles focused on institutional change and fostering inclusive practice. As Co-Chair of the Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group, I led the organisation through a period of renewal. At UNSW Sydney, I was School of Art and Design HDR Student Representative (2022), receiving an award for my advocacy, and Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture HDR Representative on the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022-23). These roles reflect my ability to influence practice from within institutions.
Alongside my professional work, I have volunteered with diverse organisations such as Pocket City Farms, The Smith Family, Guide Dogs Victoria, Free to Feed, and with state (NSW) and club lacrosse coaching. This work grounds my leadership in care, participation and long-term commitment.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
UNSW Sydney, School of Art & Design
2021 - 2025
A practice-led research project that interrogated how creative producing as an approach to interdisciplinary art-science drives inclusive public engagement experiences. Using a creative practice reflective methodology, this work interrogated creative producing through two in-depth case studies; a complex, large-scale collaboration at the intersection of Indigenous culture, archaeology, and art (Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands, a cultural festival delivered at Queensland Museum Kurilpa, Meanjin/Brisbane); and an intimate, one-on-one collaboration exploring disability identity, medical science, and art (Bone Drift, a workshop series and exhibition presented as part of ISEA24, Meanjin/Brisbane).
Triangulated through methods that evaluated audience experience of the outcomes, I showed how my creative producing practice fosters a collaborative environment that drives critical knowledge work, disrupting exclusionary modes of production. This research generated a deeper understanding of the impact of interdisciplinary practice, and provided evidence and pathways for best practice.
MSc Science Communication
Imperial College, London
2010 - 2011
Awarded with Merit. Included a research dissertation entitled: ‘Do science public engagement events in London happen in an echochamber of communication?’
BA (Hons) Physiological Sciences
Oxford University
2004 - 2007
Awarded 2:1. Academic scholarship awarded on achieving a distinction in first year exams.
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