I currently work at the University of Bristol as an Open Access Advocacy Research Support Librarian. In this role, I help researchers to understand the importance of Open Access to research culture and their obligations with regard to REF and funder requirements. 

I draw on my background as a researcher who is fascinated by what it means to experience the world through our bodies. I have done this by exploring popular entertainments as physical, sensory and intellectual experiences.

My research into the history of aerial performance demonstrates how our understanding of a moving body is culturally constructed. It is informed by my own amateur aerial practice and is driven by a desire to understand history and what that history might reveal about the form itself. My experience of practice helps me to reconstruct and understand what it might be like to experience past aerial acts and to consider what the cultural implications of past aerialists' movements might mean. 

Having conducted significant archival research and worked on short-term projects in archives, such as the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, I have an interest in the embodied experiences archives inspire.

More recently, my interest in embodiment and the body-mind benefits of movemtn and pleasure have led me to become interested in the potential mental health benefits of watching physically dynamic performance and archival research.