Voice: Valorising Artist-Led Innovation Through Citizen Engagement
Lead Artist & Project Manager | 2024–2025
Working in Ealing, West London, this interdisciplinary project brought together communities, artists, and innovators to address social and environmental sustainability through citizen-led creativity. I led collaborative workshops exploring circular strategies for textiles, mixed-reality storytelling, and design-led systems mapping in support of UN SDG12 (Responsible Consumption & Production). I facilitated community engagement with local repair cafés and produced digital resources, including tutorial films that received positive community feedback and extended the project’s legacy.
Consumer Experience Digital Tools for Dematerialisation (CXDT)
Postdoctoral Researcher | 2022–2024
Funded by EPSRC (Digital Economy – Sustainable Digital Society)
EPSRC funded research project that focused on supporting responsible consumer behaviours in fashion through digital repair interventions. My role involved designing a toolkit for repair and an ecosystem map to promote circular textile practices and ‘custodianship’ of clothing. The research aimed to support the UK apparel sector’s journey toward zero avoidable waste.
Repair Generations
Founder, Programme Lead & Facilitator | 2021–2022
This community-driven project connected people through accessible clothing repair workshops, promoting sustainable craft, intergenerational learning, and creative agency. I conceived the programme and led its design, delivery and facilitation. The project fostered confidence in emerging designers, some of whom went on to open a shop selling upcycled clothes and offering a local repair service. The programme’s legacy continues through its media presence and social engagement.
Smart Sock Sensing System
Principal Investigator & Creative Lead | 2021–2022
Funded by EPIC Cornwall (E-Health & Productivity Programme)
This feasibility study explored wearable e-textile technologies for people with diabetes. I led the research and prototype development of a smart sock that monitored pressure and temperature, working in partnership with technologists, creatives, and clinical stakeholders. The project embedded public and patient involvement (PPIE), including a focus group of 25 lay experts from Barts Hospital, ensuring user needs informed all stages of development.
Wear Sustain – Ethical & Sustainable Wearable Technologies
Lead Researcher & Project Manager | 2018–2019
EU Horizon 2020 – Funded R&D Programme
This international research programme supported the co-development of sustainable wearable technologies. I led on stakeholder engagement, prototyping, and community collaboration. Working with technologists and designers, I helped develop a suite of e-textile prototypes that addressed environmental and social issues, integrating ethics, accessibility and sustainable design principles.