Raised in a loving and supportive family, educated at St Paul's School, the University of Cambridge, and the Royal College of Music, mine is a story of success against entirely possible odds.  

 

I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, working on a climate engagement project within the catchment of the River Aire. Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms and I are collaborating with the Aire Resilience Company to understand how businesses are adapting to uncertain futures, and how we might collectively build a more resilient, interdependent, and ecologically thriving Aire Valley. 

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I also work as the Research Director for social enterprise Vesper Hill. In this role, my focus is on what we call 'listening for action' - listening-led engagement aiming at collaborative transformational change. For Vesper Hill, I'm currently working on Playgrounds of Possibility - a truly wonderful project centring young people's voices in conversations around climate adaptation, funded by the MACC Hub and led by Susi Lorenz at the University of Leeds. In my role as VH's Research Director I also lead on a range of projects collaborating with organisations on cultural change.

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I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge, researching dramaturgies of encounter in the context of the climate crisis. That research was generously supported by the Judith E. Wilson Fund at the Faculty of English. My academic writing has appeared in CTR, Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, Platform, and IJPADM, and I was honoured to co-edit an issue of theatre journal Platform with my friend and colleague Grace Joseph.

 

Before my PhD I was an opera singer and coach, training for three years at the RCM, and working at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, and Opera North. My best work, however, has been as Edmund Bertram in Waterperry Opera Festival's long-running production of Mansfield Park, by Jonathan Dove (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023).

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I love hearing from people through this site, and am always happy to talk about my work, so please - get in touch.​