About Me

Born and raised in the North of England, though often found elsewhere having worked in El Salvador, Mexico, Myanmar, Spain, Greece, and the US. I'm a trained English teacher and PhD graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I've taught classes on human rights education, refugee education, and school & society. My doctoral research used participatory and visual methods to think about community-based language education for adults seeking sanctuary in N. England, and I'm interested in how care, solidarity, humour, and the arts can be tools in both teaching and research methods.