Biography

Since joining the University of Portsmouth in 2017, my work has focused on empowering, teaching, and guiding students. My research focus has been to raise and elevate the voices of marginalised communities, to explore how student movements change over time.

My PhD explored the evolution of student activism through digitised student press. Thematically, the research explored the evolution of activist movements to highlight a shift from what I theorised as Direct Activism towards Indirect Activism. Alongside this, I have experience in the following areas:

• Senior Lecturer
• Associate Lecturer
• Teaching Fellow
• Learning Development Tutor
• Research & Insights Assistant / Coordinator / Specialist
• PGR Student Representative
• Student Representative on the Doctoral College's Management Board
• CEISR Events Coordinator
• Co-Founder / first President of the PGR Society

Research interests

• Student lived experiences, in particular the extent to which technology and social media has affected Higher Education.
• History of student activism, in particular the extent to which the past can be used as an explanation / research focus for contemporary activism. Can historical activism be compared to / contrasted with contemporary activism? Have methodologies of 1970s activists changed to 2010s activists? These are questions I am interested in answering. 
• The emotive turn in Journalism - and the extent to which social media has reshaped the landscape for Journalism as a profession.
• Social media & Journalism - I am interested in exploring how young people engage in news production and consumption online.
• Political participation, especially amongst young people and the influence of technology and social media on this. In particular, the extent to which young people experience and live politics and political participation differently in the post-2000 world, with a specific interest in political apathy vs political alienation of young people. 
• The impact of interdisciplinary research and the ability of combining disciplines methodologically to answer questions and challenges in different ways.