I'm an early career lecturer in creative industries and the course leader for the Media, Culture and Journalism undergraduate programme. My research interests largely focus on screen media audiences and identity, fans meaning-making practices and participatory cultures, digital media technologies, cult media, and transnational media ecologies. I am also particularly interested in media inclusion and diversity including access to, and usage of, media - such as dementia-friendly cinema events - and textual representations - such as race, gender, and sexuality. I am also the Industry Liaison Officer for Media, Culture and Journalism, supporting students to develop their social networks and gain meaningful work within the creative industries.

I have also worked with a number of industry partners including: RNIB, Aardman and Fictioneers, The Democracy Box, and IJPR. Past projects include:

• Research Fellow: Audience Research Audience of the Future project working in collaboration with Fictioneers on the Wallace and Gromit Big Fix Up.
• Research Assistant: Sensory Impairment and Digital Technology Engagement, Swansea University (UK)/RNIB (UK)
• Committee Board Member: Making Media Collaborative (AHRC), Cardiff University (UK)/Whitchurch College (UK)

I'm have recently published my sole-authored monograph Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror with Amsterdam University Press. 

I am an early career Lecturer in Creative Industries who teaches on a number of modules including Contemporary Popular Television; TV Drama; Media Audiences and Fandom; Understanding Communication in the Creative Industries; and Transmedia. I am also a supervisor for undergraduate students and PhD candidates. 

I am a HEA/Advance HE Fellow