Personal Statement
I am a human geographer and I have interests in health, embodiment, materiality, surveillance, social media and qualitative methods. My research particularly relates to the social and cultural aspects of digital health. I completed my BA and MA at the University of Liverpool, as well as my ESRC funded Ph.D. titled: 'Healthy lifestyles or 'dangerous competition' - self-tracking and the geographies of surveillance and materiality in the lives of young people.' I teach on modules with a focus on social and cultural geographies and critical public health.

Research Overview
My research broadly sits within social and cultural geographies and critical public health. More specifically, I’m interested in how digital health technologies are experienced in relation to understandings of health and how such technologies blur the distinction between digital and material worlds and embodiments. My previous research has considered the ‘noisy’ and ‘friendly’ forms of surveillance present within the space of a physical activity tracking app and its connections with social media. Within other work I have also explored my own experience of conducting an auto-netnography of my use of an Apple watch. This involved me considering my experience of my own body size, as well as an exploration of the different ways in which my material and digital body became entangled. My PhD looked at young people’s experiences of self-tracking, focusing on three central themes: health and the body, materiality and everydayness and sociality and surveillance. Theoretically, my work intersects between post-structural theory and feminist new materialism.