I am a researcher on place, space and public policy, working with the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. My PhD examined sustainability transitions and institutional change, and I worked with the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield on green space and wellbeing. Outside academia, I have been a journalist and consultant, specialising in UK community regeneration. I am the author of How to Save Our Town Centres (Policy Press, 2015) and co-editor of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope (Anthem, 2020) and Naturally Challenged (Springer Nature, 2020).
Experience
2010–present
Director, Urban Pollinators `Ltd
2020–present
Senior research fellow, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
2017–2019
Research associate, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Education
2017
Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, PhD, sustainability transitions
Publications
2020
A part and yet apart: how third sector visions of carbon reduction are both welcomed and marginalised, Voluntary Sector Review
2020
Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces, Springer Nature
2020
Urban Crisis, Urban Hope: A policy agenda for UK cities, Anthem Press
2019
Working out What Works: The Role of Tacit Knowledge Where Urban Greenspace Research, Policy and Practice Intersect, Sustainability
2019
Reinterpreting urban institutions for sustainability: How epistemic networks shape knowledge and logics, Environmental Science & Policy
2018
From contest to context: urban green space and public policy, People, Place and Policy
2017
From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres, Citizenship Studies