I’m a transdisciplinary researcher exploring how collective consciousness materialises within subcultures of technology and science practice. My creative research practice, focused on storytelling and community building, critiques Extended Reality (ER) as a space to re-examine possibilities for life. This has implications for crafting worlds and ways of living through the collective imagination of planetary justice. My background is as an applied biologist, training originally as a neuroscientist, prior to which I worked in the creative industries as a commissioner, scriptwriter, executive producer and curator.  I am co-director of Squirrel Nation, and an alumni of the Stuart Hall Scholars and Fellows Network, Jerwood/ Manchester International Festival Fellow and was previously a JUSTAI / Ada Lovelace racial justice AI fellow.

I am a member of the Digital Cultures Research Centre, the Critical Race and Cultures cross-UWE network led and associate member of the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environment. I am a member of the steering group of the Technology Pathways and Meaningful Innovation at the Royal Academy of Engineering as part of the Academy’s Futures and Dialogue programme. I am co-editor of book series, ‘Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures’ published by Emerald Press.