The Work
Oracle of Place
A practice-based research project exploring how people relate to the places they live.
Through creative prompts and participatory methods, the project invites people to notice, interpret and engage with local landscapes in new ways. Rather than documenting place, it focuses on how meaning is created through everyday encounters, memory and attention.
Place-Based Projects (Herefordshire)
Collaborative work with communities in Herefordshire, exploring how local stories, memory and lived experience shape relationships to place.
These projects use simple, creative methods to open up conversation and reflection, creating space for people to share how they experience their surroundings and what those places mean to them.
Research
PhD research at the University of Worcester, examining how place-based practices support connection, belonging and wellbeing.
The research brings together creative practice, cultural theory and lived experience to explore how people form relationships with place, and how those relationships can be sustained through meaningful, repeatable engagement.
It sits at the intersection of therapeutic landscapes, folklore and ritual, reframed through contemporary, participatory approaches to cultural practice.
Practice & Facilitation
Alongside my research and project work, I facilitate participatory sessions and workshops that invite people to engage with place through creative practice, reflection and shared experience.
These sessions take place both in-person and online, and explore everyday environments, seasonal rhythms and embodied ways of relating to place. They form part of the ongoing development of methods that support attention, interpretation and connection.
Field Engagement
Work that contributes to wider conversations around place, culture and wellbeing.
Therapeutic Landscapes Conference
I contribute to the development and delivery of the Therapeutic Landscapes conference, supporting its role as a space for dialogue around place, wellbeing and lived experience.
Alongside this, I run the associated podcast, extending these conversations through interviews and public-facing engagement with researchers and practitioners working in the field.