Welcome. I’m a researcher and writer based at Newcastle University. Over time, my work has moved across social and political economies of care, labour, migration, technology and documentary performance.
I’m currently looking at different ‘fixes’ to a care crisis experienced (with variation) across many countries. Some of this research has attracted media interest, such as The Guardian, The Economist, Nature, The Telegraph, BBC Business Weekly.
In 2025, I am working with a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to examine exoskeleton technology designed to augment human strength and reduce the need for care labour. This builds on recent writing I’ve done on companion robotics and the automation of social care in the UK.
I am also in the beginning stages of Refugees Care which will build understanding of the long-term socio-economic effects that inclusion and exclusion to retraining programmes are having for refugee healthcare practitioners and their extended communities in northeast England. This work is forged with refugee advocacy workers in Newcastle and Middlesborough.
Previously, I spent several years documenting challenges (family separation, deskilling) relating to the migration of Filipina domestic workers and their children to Canada. Periods of this research involved substantive collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of BC and Migrante International.
As a form of public scholarship, I’ve an especial interest in creating research-derived documentary performance – some of this work has been presented internationally: Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (2009, 2010, 2013), Berlin’s HAU1 Theatre (2009), Ballhaus Ost (2019), and in Edinburgh (2012), Whitehorse (2012; 2016), Manila (2013; 2015); and Bangkok (2022).
I’ve published in journals such as Society & Space, Antipode, cultural geographies, Transactions, Annals, and elsewhere. With Geraldine Pratt, I co-authored Migration in Performance: Crossing the Colonial Present, a monograph exploring the use of documentary theatre to circulate stories of the violence associated with labour migration and entwined colonialisms between Canada and the Philippines.
I am also a current Associate Editor with cultural geographies and with Studies for Social Justice.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
