I am a Lecturer in the School of Education at University of Sheffield.
I am an interdisciplinary scholar, composer, and qualitative methodologist working at the intersections of critical disability studies, queer/trans theory, and early childhood education. My research investigates how neurodivergent, queer, and trans individuals negotiate identity, place, and belonging through sound and language. I specialize in multi-method research design, combining large-scale qualitative frameworks with innovative research-creation and sonic methods.
My current and past research projects include:
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Neuroqueer(ing) Noise: my PhD research-creation study.
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Oblique Curiosities: a music research-creation duo.
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Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education: a large, ESRC-funded project exploring how teachers access literacy research.
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Supporting young children’s language through place and movement in museums: a collaboration with Humber Museums exploring young children's language in the afterlives of COVID-19.
I am a composer and sound designer. My work includes Filmworker, My Big Break, and The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival. I am one-half of glitch-folk research-creation band Oblique Curiosities. I am a life-long Doctor Who fan and often think with and across Doctor Who and other speculative fiction in my work.
Photo credit Chris Bailey