I am a storyteller and queer biologist experimenting with collective consciousness as a form of participatory earth making. I am Wallscourt Associate Professor in Immersive Media at UWE Bristol and Watershed’s Inaugural Researcher in Residence focused on queering metabolism and mutual learning into epistemic justice. This has implications for crafting worlds, ways of living and responsible innovation through the collective imagination of planetary justice.

Previous residencies and fellowships held include with Factory International/ Jerwood, NESTA, Wellcome, INIVA/ Stuart Hall Library and LSE/Ada Lovelace Institute. My transdisciplinary research inquiries and publications span AI and art automation, design justice, systems change, biology and funding equity. I am co-editor of book series ‘Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures’ for Emerald Press and an advisor on the Royal Academy of Engineering Steering group for Technology Pathways & Meaningful Innovation.

Following a PhD in Applied Neuroscience, a 2-year NESTA fellowship allowed me to work at the intersection of art, science and participatory digital media. I then worked in the creative industries as a commissioner, filmmaker, scriptwriter, executive producer and curator. This included 5 years as guest curator of DocFest Exchange, Sheffield International Documentary Festival’s public programme and 5 years at B3 Media as executive producer and co-founding Squirrel Nation as Creative Director. Prior to joining UWE Bristol in 2022, I was Senior Lecturer in Digital Media & Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University and Senior Digital Society Fellow at The University of Reading.

At UWE Bristol I am a member of the Digital Cultures leadership team, the Black Professoriate and associate member of the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environment.