About
I am a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. Before completing my PhD in Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool, I worked in child and adult health and social care.
Working across environmental psychology, the environmental and medical humanities, and science and technology studies, my research is concerned with how people and communities stay psychologically well and adapt through personal, socio-cultural and ecological change and how everyday and folk understandings of body and environment meet scientific and expert knowledge.
Broadly speaking, I see health and wellbeing as relational, something made between people, places and the more-than-human world, especially in times of turbulence or transition. I have studied this in adolescent epilepsy clinics, urban neighbourhoods during heatwaves, and grassroots community health initiatives that fill gaps left by institutions.
I work mainly ethnographically, combining participant observation and interviews with creative and participatory methods, and aim for research that matters within academia and to the people it is about.
I am currently writing a book on urban heatwaves and psychology.