About

I am an interdisciplinary scholar having researched and taught across the fields of childhood and youth, sociology, museum studies and media and communication. My research interest broadly focuses on identity but this intersects with care experience, childhood and youth, memory, cultural participation, class, loneliness and society and culture.

I have been a lecturer in childhood and youth at Liverpool Hope University since 2016. Previously I worked in the School of Museum Studies from 2013-2016, at the University of Leicester as a postdoctoral research associate, where I was employed on the AHRC- funded project called, Understanding Everyday Participation: Articulating Cultural Values.

My educational background is in Sociology. In 2012, I was awarded a PhD in Sociology from Queens University, Belfast. Prior to that I recieved a MA is Sociological Research from the University of Essex in 2006 and a BSc with Hons in Sociology from Cardiff University in 2004.