My research concerns Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV). I joined USW in 2023 as Project Associate for the Bawso Stories Project, a cross-sector partnership between USW, specialist domestic abuse service Bawso and Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales). This storytelling project sought to capture, curate and amplify the voices of Bawso service users and diversify the collections held in the national archive with oral histories and digital stories. 

I am now Senior Research Assistant sitting within the Welsh Institute of Health and Social Care (WIHSC) working across a number of projects focusing on gender, violence and improving both public awareness and service provision.

I have a longstanding interest in working with under-represented communities and groups and improving both wellbeing and access to services and opportunties. Prior to joining USW, I was Research Assistant/Fellow at the University of Warwick.

Between 2018-2022 I completed a PhD on the topic of feminist pedagogy at Loughborough University. In addition to having academic expertise in this area reagrding histories and theories of feminist pedagogy, I have also been a part of several inclusive education projects as Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and as a consultant for the charity SafeLives.

As an interdisciplinary researcher, I have experience with a range of qualitative methods such close reading, document analysis, interviews, focus groups, diary method, qualitative surveys and creative/participatory methods, e.g. digital storytelling. 

Alongside research I have a longstanding practice of developing and facilitating public arts initiatives, such as reading groups, creative workshops, exhibition programmes and artist residencies. In this capacity I have worked primarily with collaborators in Denmark, primarily the art platforms rum46 and Sigrids Stue.