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Personal statement

I teach and research across the interdisciplinary areas of Childhood and Youth Studies, Audience and Fan Studies, and Trauma Theory and Visual Culture. I'm currently working on a contracted monograph 'Children’s Mascots and Media Cultures: Horror, Humour, and Affective Audience Connections' with Edinburgh University Press as part of their Children's Film and Television series.

As a Senior Lecturer in Media Communications, I serve as Module Leader for Audiences and Fans, Writing For The Media, Media Ethics, and Exhibitions and Public Audiences, and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Since completing my PhD thesis on cultural histories of childhood sexual abuse and its contentious relationship to comedy, my research into humour studies, shock cultures, digital media and visual cultures of violence has been published in First Monday, Galactica Journal, Blind Field Journal, the Palgrave Macmillan collection Discourses of Anxiety Over Childhood and Youth Across Cultures (2020), and The Palgrave Handbook for Violence in Film and Media (2022) amongst others. I have upcoming chapters in the Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence and Popular Culture, and Routledge's Screening Controversy collection, both of which are due for publication at the end of 2026.

I currently serve as the Queer Research Tools section editor alongside Professor Kath Browne for the upcoming Bloomsbury Handbook for Queer Research Methods. The handbook is due for publication early 2028, and I'm also contributing a co-authored book chapter for the section on creative research tools for queer Disabled lived experience research.

In the 2023-2024 academic year, I joined the Wellcome Trust's We Are The People team as a Research Fellow, exploring the subject of disability arts and LGBTQIA+ experiences of accessibility. In addition to this, I'm a member of The Research Centre for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Creativity due to my ongoing interest in mental health, trauma theory and participatory media.

I'm always happy to hear from prospective PhD students working in these areas and beyond.

Academic qualifications

• PhD, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2019
• MA, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, 2014
• BA (Hons), Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
• FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching specialisms

• Childhood and Youth Cultures
• Online Harms and Media Ethics
• Trauma Theory and Mental Health
• Comedy Studies, Horror and Transgressive Media