About Me

My Mission

I have worked with children, young people, and vulnerable families across both private and public sectors. Supporting families to interrupt generational patterns, navigate change, and create opportunities for growth has always been the thread running through my professional life and my research.

Alongside this practice, I am a researcher and curator working at the intersections of childhood, identity, space, and materiality. My work draws on post-qualitative and new materialist thinking, and is informed by a new-hermetic materialist stance that understands the world as deeply relational, patterned, and alive with influence. I explore how children’s lives are shaped not only by people, but by the spaces, objects, energies, and histories that surround them.

I am interested in patterns. How they form and how they can be interrupted. I believe research is not simply about producing knowledge, but about creating the conditions for reflection, responsiveness, and change. Children are not passive recipients of systems; they are active participants in shaping them. When we listen carefully, their experiences reveal where environments enable expression and where they quietly constrain it.

My philosophy is relational. I see the world as entangled, with people, materials, histories, and institutions continually shaping one another. From this perspective, meaningful change begins with reflexivity. It begins with our willingness to examine the patterns we carry into our practice, our research, and our relationships.

My mission is to facilitate learning that interrupts inherited assumptions, honours complexity, and supports environments where diverse identities can flourish.