Born and raised in the North of England, though often found elsewhere having worked in the UK, El Salvador, Mexico, Myanmar, Spain, Greece, and the US. I'm currently a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK) conducting evaluation of parliamentary education & engagement programmes.

A PhD graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (US), I've taught classes on human rights education, refugee education, and school & society. My doctoral research used participatory and visual methods to think about community-based language education for adults seeking sanctuary in the North of England. I'm interested in pedagogies of care, solidarity, and critical cosmopolitanism - as well as how humour can be a tool in both teaching and research methods.

When not working, you'll find me being creative or trying to befriend passing animals. I enjoy salsa dancing, painting, photography, and creative writing, and my non-academic writing has been published in numerous outlets including The Times Educational Supplement. 

My non-fiction book, Back Up North, is now available at all the usual places: Amazon, Browns, Waterstones, WHSmith, as well as directly from Scratching Shed Publishing Buy here 

'A very beguiling take on the North and Northern culture - clever, insightful and, yes, very droll'
- Charles Jennings, author of Up North