Bio
Education
2024-25 | PGCERT | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
2022-23 | FHEA | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
Fellowship of the Higher Education Authority
2011-19 | PHD | NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY (UK)
PhD in Human Geography
2008-09 | MA | GOLDSMITHS (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
MA in Photography and Urban Cultures
2002-05 | BA (HONS) | UNIVERSITY OF DERBY
BA (Hons) in Photography
Research Experience
2025-29 | EU COST ACTION CA24165
WORKING GROUP MEMBER
EU COST-funded action CA24165 Network for Cardiovascular Pharmacogenomics and Precision Medicine (CardioPharmaGENET)
2022-26 | EU COST ACTION CA21141
WORKING GROUP MEMBER
EU COST-funded action CA21141 Grassroots of Digital Europe: from Historic to Contemporary Cultures of Creative Computing (GRADE)
2023-24 | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
CO-INVESTIGATOR
University of Sheffield (internally funded) The social lives of patients’ stories: the roles of accounts of rare disease from innovation to authorisation and marketing of orphan drugs (SLoPS)
2023-24 | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Research England (internally) funded Fostering cultures of open qualitative research
2023-24 | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
CO-INVESTIGATOR
Research England (internally) funded Patient access to orphan drugs in the UK from patients’ perspectives
2019-20 | UNI. OF SYDNEY / UNI. OF GLASGOW
CO-INVESTIGATOR
University of Sydney-University of Glasgow partnership collaboration award (PCA) funded Smart publics: Public perceptions of smart street furniture in Glasgow and London
2015-16 | EU COST ACTION TU1305
EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR
EU COST funded action TU1305 on Social Networks and Travel Behaviour
2016-16 | EU COST ACTION TU1305
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
EC COST action TU1305 funded four-week short-term scientific mission (STSM) at the Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics/Transportøkonomisk institutt –TØI
Teaching Experience
2023-25 | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
RESEARCH FELLOW & GUEST LECTURER
BA in Digital Media and Society; MA in Digital Media and Society; BA (Hons) in Sociology.
- Advanced social media research
- Introduction to digital methods
- Dissertation supervision
- Sociology of health and illness
2018-21 | UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE& GUEST LECTURER
BA/MA in Sociology; BA/MA in Sociology with Quantitiave Methods.
- Digital Society
- Quantitative Methods for Social Science
2023-25 | UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
BA (Hons) in Sociology; MSc in Creative and Cultural Industries Management.
- Cultural Concepts in the Creative & Cultural Industries
- Globalisation and World Cultures
- Sociology of Everyday Life
- The Sociological Imagination
- The State of Sheffield: Super-diverse Sheffield
- Understanding Social Inequality
- Welfare Politics and the State
Employment History
9/2025 – 06/2026 | RESEARCH ASSOCIATE | UNIVERSTY OF MANCHESTER
Working at a UK top 10 School of Medical Sciences for the multi-national EU Horizon Europe-funded DELiberative ImproVEment of oRal care quality (DELIVER) project. The wider project aims to develop as series of online tools, and to act as a blueprint for meaningful deliberative dialogues between dentists, clinicians, and patients – as a pathway to better dental service delivery drawing on improvement science. My work for the project involves a variety of activities across three workstreams (WS1-3), undertaken in Germany and the UK: WS1 focuses on examining patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) to develop a service quality monitoring dashboard, with qualitative research on dentists perceptions of its value after use; W2 develops a taxonomy of unstructured data within PROMs and PREMs, drawing on natural language processing (NLP) to do so, in particular, we use DeBERTa model sentiment classification and BERTopic for topic modelling to develop dashboard to accompany the one generated by WS1; and WS3 which includes both Realist and systematic literature reviews of mHealth uptake within dentistry, framing analyses in WS1 and WS2.
2/2021 – 08/2025 | RESEARCH FELLOW | UNIVERSTY OF SHEFFIELD
Working for the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Orphan drugs: high prices,access to medicines and the transformation of biopharmaceutical innovation project (award held by Prof Paul Martin) substantively involved leading a workstream on the politics surrounding access and high prices for orphan drugs prices. Primary research included ethnographic immersion at academic and industry conferences, interviews with patients and rare disease experts, and digital methods research including digital methods analyses of social media. It required an ability to negotiate and manage professional relationships, eliciting data on vulnerable people and with commercially sensitive aspects. Through this role, personal career development has seen gain a FHEA and PGCertTLHE through occasional teaching i.e., undergraduate and postgraduate lecturing and supervising MA dissertation supervision, Further development has saw me gain UKRI funds for an independent project Fostering cultures of open qualitative research and work for SLoPS and UK-ODA. (see Research Experience above).
> Date overlap – started whilst serving three-month notice period on previous role.
7/2018 – 08/2021 | RESEARCH ASSOCIATE | UNIVERSTY OF GLASGOW*
Working for the AHRC-funded Beyond the Multiplex project – part-time completion of a PhD in parallel – saw me develop various skills. The project generated theory and policy recommendations for non-mainstream film (i.em. arthouse) audience development, working collaboratively with co-investigators from the Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Sheffield, and York to contribute towards (and at times lead) various outputs, often combining STS (social theories of practice) with theory from new cinema histories. The role also involved managing relations between website and database developers and academic researchers to design a website with search tools and data visualisations through by inductively building an RDF/triplestore database that adapts with end-user search, thus maintaining an interpretivist base.
4/2018 – 06/2018 | RESEARCH ASSOCIATE | NEWCASTLE UNIVERSTY
This role (discussed above) involved working for the AHRC-funded Beyond the Multiplex project alongside part-time PhD study. The role transferred as a continuing TUPE from Newcastle University into the University of Glasgow alongside the Principal Investigator’s change of institutional employer.
9/2016 – 04/2018 | PLANNING ASSISTANT | NETWORK RAIL
Working for the UK’s rail network provider, this role (undertaken full-time during part-time PhD study) involved planning and resourcing various infrastructure maintenance projects. It required a good knowledge of rail standards, familiarity with various planning systems (inlcluing PPS, NROL3, and Business Objects) and advanced knowledge of most Microsoft Office products.
10/2015 – 06/2016 | GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT | UNIVERSTY OF SHEFFIELD
Undertaken during early-stage PhD study (prior to transferring to Newcastle University in 2016 alongside the primary supervisor), this role saw me deliver seminars and mark/assess work across eight courses, whilst completing a series of graduate teacher training modules.
10/2015 – 06/2016 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | ADDACTION
Working for a large drug and alcohol misuse and mental health charity, I managed a Microsoft SharePoint intranet/extranet, taking responsibilitu fr poeject managing various software implementations. Alongside, I designed and delivered a training programme for over 1,200 staff nationwide, input as technology lead on various contract bids/tenders, and sat on a critical incident review group (CIRG).
10/2015 – 06/2016 | POLICY & PERFORMANCE OFFICER | L&Q
This varied role for the UK’s second-largest social landlord involving analyses of business processes, procedures, and policies – alongside managing various SharePoint-based Sites. It also involved drafting copy for policy, reports, benchmarking across the G15, and various public-facing communications aimed towards a diverse set of audiences e.g., guides and leaflets.