My research interests centre on digital society and policy, in particular public engagement in data rights. I am a trained ethnographer, and hold a distinction in a Digital Anthropology MSc from University College London. I have continued to build on my dissertation research from this programme, centred on a pilot community data trust in a fishing town in Devon and supported by a UCL Anthropology Research Award.

In 2022 I undertook a digital ethnography on cold water swimmers at Hampstead Ladies’ Pond, and was awarded an honarium to make work for an exhibition exploring power and representation with the Museum of Data and UCL’s Slade School of Fine Art. A team project into online trust-building between buyers and sellers presented to the Gumtree product team in 2023, and I worked with UCL’s Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory on digital exploration and preservation of Guarani and Kaiowá cultural heritage in Brazil. You can find out more about some of these projects and my ongoing research below.

During my masters I wrote on algorhythmic violence, technology’s role in both transcending and embedding colonial knowledge systems, NHS Digital data-sharing with the Home Office, what constitutes ethical data, and disobedient distributive design by the horse community on Facebook.

I have an MA from the University of Oxford in Modern History, with a focus on visual culture. I completed my thesis on comparative representations of witchcraft in Early Modern media in England and Germany, alongside an extended essay on the impact of photography on 19th century French oil portraiture. I’m interested in the evolving digital aesthetics of witchcraft, particularly on TikTok, and maintain an expanding folder of medieval memes.