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I'm a practice-based researcher and evaluator with a specific interest in the interaction between art, culture, community and different ideas of publics.
I'm about to complete a PhD in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Birkbeck, University of London. My research is about how art and community spaces connect in Union Street of Plymouth, and how arts policy effects those connections.
I often works collaboratively and uses creative methods such as film, diagrams, games and reading materials to understand how people relate to each other, their environment, culture and politics.
I have worked collaboratively and individually as an art and cultural evaluator since 2017. Along with Sophie Hope I recently completed a four-year evaluation of BE PART, a network of 10 arts organisations from across Europe sharing experiences and practices to understand and further participation in art. For this, I facilitated evaluation workshops, conducted interviews, commissioned and trained local diarists to act as eyes and ears on the ground, and co-authored an extensive evaluation report.
Since starting my PhD I have taught at undergraduate and MA level, organised audio-visual training courses for other PhD students and ran reading groups relating to urbanism and its intersection with economics, art, culture and politics. I have presented my practice-based research publicly, given papers on evaluation methods (notably at the FailSpace conference) and authored articles on community film practice and evaluation methodologies. Since 2018 I have worked on Cards on the Table and write a blog about that and other evaluation card games.