My research interests include the ways design shapes and is shaped by systems of care, health, and inequality. My AHRC-funded PhD explored how design practices in the UK contribute to health inequities, with a particular focus on breastfeeding and caregiving as sites of cultural stigma, systemic exclusion, and potential transformation. The project paid particular attention to class-based disparities and the marginalisation of maternal voices within both health and design contexts. I drew on feminist, decolonial, and practice-based approaches to challenge dominant biomedical and individualised narratives, instead foregrounding relational, situated, and systemic perspectives. I’m particularly interested in design justice, ontological design, and the role of reflexivity in research and practice.

I am a Design Lecturer Sustainability in Design strand lead for the Centre of Design History. I completed my AHRC Design Star-funded, practice research in Design PhD at the University of Brighton. My supervisory team spanned the School of Architecture and Design, the School of Health Sciences, and Goldsmiths, University of London.

I regularly publish and share my work both within academic contexts and across public, activist, and practitioner settings. My aim is to open up space for diverse and often marginalised voices in design and health research — particularly maternal perspectives and class-based experiences.

I hold an MA in Sustainable Design and a BA in Three-Dimensional Design, and I bring over 15 years of industry experience in lighting design and product development across the UK and Australia. Prior to joining the University of Brighton, I worked with organisations including Pinniger and Partners, Studio Fractal, The National Gallery Company, KRD – Kitchen Rogers Design, and iLAB Sydney.

My approach to teaching is grounded in the understanding that learning is an active, social, and relational process. I favour workshops and experimental formats as generative spaces for negotiating ideas, theory, and the material and cultural dimensions of design. This approach is informed by my practice-based research, which takes seriously the role of bodies, play, making, and 'thinking with' as vital modes of inquiry and knowledge production.

I welcome applications from postgraduate researchers interested in the intersections of design, care, health, and inequality. My supervisory interests span design justice, sustainability, and practice-based research that challenges dominant narratives and explores alternative ways of knowing and living. I am particularly interested in projects that connect human and planetary health, that challenge dominant models of thinking about more-than-human worlds, and that critically engage with emerging technologies through the lens of feminist STS. I also bring over 15 years of professional experience in lighting design, and welcome projects that explore the cultural, social, and environmental dimensions of light and material practice. I am particularly keen to support projects that:

• Address class, gender, and health inequalities through critical and creative design research.

• Explore care, caregiving, and maternal/parental experiences as cultural and systemic sites of transformation.

• Develop feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to design, health, and sustainability.

• Investigate human and planetary health, sustainability transitions, and more-than-human perspectives in design.

• Engage critically with emerging technologies and feminist STS to question power, ethics, and imaginaries in design.

• Use practice-based, participatory, speculative, and activist methods to engage with systemic change.

• Critically examine ontological and systemic dimensions of design, including reflexivity, relationality, and situated knowledge.