Teaching

I am a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Fashion & Textiles Institute, Falmouth University, where I teach across costume, fashion, and textiles programmes. My teaching supports students in developing critically engaged approaches to visual culture.

My work integrates theory, analysis, and reflection, positioning creative practice as a form of enquiry. I introduce students to key frameworks from cultural studies, visual culture, and feminist theory, including Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and Michel Foucault.

I supervise undergraduate dissertations and support students in developing independent research, critical writing, and a distinctive creative voice.

My teaching explores how images and material practices engage with identity, representation, and embodiment, with particular focus on dress, the body, and visual culture. I deliver seminar series on topics including fashion and identity, the politics of representation, and the body as a cultural construct (socially situated, gendered, queer, and posthuman). I embed theory through applied analysis of film and visual media supporting students to connect critical frameworks with their own creative practice.

My teaching is seminar-led and discussion-based, combining lectures, workshops, and critique. I emphasise:

• critical reflection alongside making

• experimentation and process-led practice

• dialogue and collaborative learning

My approach is also informed by artist-led pedagogy through my work with MOR Art Group, where I facilitate peer learning and collaborative enquiry beyond formal academic contexts.