![]() I also lead the Consolidating Learning strand of the AHRC project Changing the Story, which asks how the arts, heritage, and human rights education can support youth-centred approaches to civil society building in post-conflict settings across the world. I am Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Youth Accountability and Deaf Inclusion in South Africa (led by Professor Paul Cooke), which builds on GCRF projects in South Africa in 20 investigating the relationship between participatory arts, learning, voice and leadership for children and youth. I lead the AHRC International Research Network Communicating the Unsayable: Learning at the Intersection of Language and the Arts, with colleagues at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and partners Leeds Libraries, Pudsey Wellbeing Charity, The British Museum and Museu de Lleida. I co-founded and co-convene the AILA Research Network on Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics, with Jessica Bradley (University of Sheffield) and Emilee Moore (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). I am an education researcher specialising in learning at the intersection of language and the arts, particularly in intercultural, public engagement and post-conflict contexts. My current interests lie in theorising the relationship between learning and voice in arts-based, collaborative and co-produced research. Director of Postgraduate Research Studies.I am a keen choral singer, recovering pianist and dilettante fiction writer, and am fascinated by how we communicate and learn at the intersections of art and language. After another short period of teaching in Scotland, this time in Glasgow, I taught English for Academic Purposes and tutored on the Manchester Leadership Programme during my ESRC-funded postgraduate study at University of Manchester. I joined the team at Leeds in January 2014. A first-generation university student, I studied English Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh, after which I completed my CELTA, taught English as a Foreign Language in Edinburgh, and then moved to Bratislava, Slovakia, where I taught English for two years. ![]()
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