From 2016 to 2020 I completed a practice-led PhD titled ‘Poor Copy: Fan Practices and Producerly Art Making’, which was funded by the University of Plymouth’s ‘Histories, Memory Work, and Memorialisation’ studentship. My PhD explored methodological similarities between fan and art practices, and analysed how fans, artists, and their methods of making engage with extant narratives. The research asked how art-making processes and products can foster, embrace and represent activities that empower participants (artists, fans, and audiences) to create, change or build on dominant histories and mythologies. 

My research is interdisciplinary, working across visual arts, theatre and performance, fan studies, and popular culture. I won the 2019 Michael T. Marsden Award for outstanding original contribution to the field of Popular Culture studies for my work on practice-research methodological approaches to the field. 

I have shared my research via exhibitions (including at Jerwood Space, London; The Northern Charter, Newcastle; Exeter Phoenix; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth); conference papers (including International Federation of Theatre Researchers at Shanghai Theatre Academy, Fan Studies Network Conference at University of Huddersfield, Troubling Time: An Exploration of Temporality in the Arts, University of Manchester); journal articles (The Popular Culture Studies Journal), peer learning spaces (including Arts In The Alps Doctoral Spring School, Université Grenoble Alpes, Live Art Development Agency showcase at Chapter Arts, Cardiff), and book chapters (Theatre and Fandom, University of Iowa Press). 

I enjoy creating opportunities for researchers to share their work both to academic and wider audiences. I often curate and project manage conferences, symposia, and exhibitions to this end.