TEACHER, TRAINER, RESEARCHER, WRITER 

Educator rooted in theory, researcher grounded in practice, writer following her curiosity. For queries relating to my work - or yours! - contact me here.

I was born and raised in the North of England, though am often found elsewhere having worked in El Salvador, Mexico, Myanmar, Spain, Greece, and the US. I'm currently a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK) conducting evaluation research into 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 N. England. I'm interested in pedagogies of care, solidarity, and cosmopolitanism; as well as how both humour and the arts can be a tool in both teaching and research methods.

My non-academic writing has been published in numerous outlets including The Times Educational Supplement. And my non-fiction book about the North of England, Back Up North, is available at all the usual retailers, as well as directly from Scratching Shed Publishing. 'A very beguiling take on the North and Northern culture - clever, insightful and, yes, very droll'  - Charles Jennings, author of Up North  Buy here