Research

I am an independent, unaffiliated researcher. My research includes practice-based arts and relational work as well as more traditional written theory.

My current research interests include subalternised relational and epistemic practices, Madness and prefigurative abolitionist strategies.

Think Like a Mushroom

I write about gender, practical anarchism and the politics of care and violence (among other things) over at my blog Think Like a Mushroom. You can read/subscribe to the blog and download printable zine versions of some of my work by clicking the buttons below.

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Practice-based research

  • The Treehouse (2025–ongoing)

    • The Treehouse is a new play exploring the interactions of serious mental illness with grief, family and relationship to land and nature. This research focuses on techniques for representing experiences that diverge markedly from consensus reality on the theatre stage.

      This research was supported in the first half of 2025 by a £20,530 grant from the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals, and partnerships with Birds of Paradise Theatre Company and Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. Further development is scheduled for 2026/27.

  • Tadpole learning taxonomy (2020–ongoing)

    • Tadpole is a learning taxonomy system that builds on Atkinson’s taxonomy visualisation (2017), Biggs and Collis’s SOLO taxonomy (1982) and various models from the field of multihierarchical task analysis. It has been designed to support rigorous learning design that can be translated across diverse settings, particularly for informal contexts, learners identified as ‘hard-to-reach’ and when moving between in-person, hybrid and digital modes of education.

      This research has been supported at different times through my roles with Te Kuratini Tuwhera o Aotearoa | The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, ADInstruments (New Zealand), Scottish Cot Death Trust and Scottish Refugee Council.

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