In 2021 I joined the AHRC funded project ‘Civic Theatres: A Place for Towns’ which aims to support a national conversation about the role of theatre in towns. In my role as postdoctoral researcher, I have led a research strand exploring volunteer-led theatres through wider discussions around English coastal towns. 

I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose work sits across the fields of theatre and performance and cultural geography. Past research has focussed on the geographies of amateur creativity - working with amateur theatre-makers (backstage workers involved in set building, costume and props) through ethnographic methods to investigate the hidden spaces, processes and materialities of their craft. I have published on these themes in journals including Contemporary Theatre Review and Performance Research.

Previous to this post I was an early career research fellow within the V&A Research Institute (VARI), exploring and designing serendipitous object encounters through questions of making. 

I gained my PhD from the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London with my thesis titled A Study of Amateur Theatre: Making and Making-Do (2018). My PhD contributed to the wider AHRC funded project 'Amateur Dramatics: Crafting Communities in Time and Space'. I hold a BA(Hons) in Human Geography from the University of Exeter (2010) and an MA in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway, University of London (2012).