my projects.

In 2024, Faye visited Botswana and South Africa to explore community engagement practices reducing transmission of HIV and other blood-borne viruses. She then returned to Scotland to contextualise her research into practice through her role as Trustee of Waverley Care, Scotland’s largest sexual health charity.

Role: Fellowship Holder

Collaborator: Abraham Mamela (Mentor)

Researchers, alongside people with dementia, family carers, health and social care professionals and UK charities, have come together to empower a meaningful life for all.

Role: Public & Community Engagement Specialist

Collaborators: Creative Facilitator & Illustrator (Alice Haskell), Web Developer (FoSho Studios)

Family Interventions iN Dementia Mental health Environments (FIND ME) aims to co-design evidence-based strategies to improve how Mental Health Wards involve and support carers and improve patient outcomes for people with dementia.

Role: Public & Community Engagement Lead

Collaborators: Illustrator (Alice Haskell), Podcast (FoSho Studios)

A partnership between the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) and Waverley Care which explores the different experiences of living with a blood-borne virus (BBV).

Role: Co-founder and Project Lead

Collaborators: Creative Facilitator (Alice Haskell), Video Production (FoSho Studios)

Coalface to Wildspace: Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire & Lothians aims to engage with communities across the region to help create and restore ponds and surrounding land habitats. The project also aims to create Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors and undertake a vast public engagement programme of activities and events.

Role: Public Consultation Specialist

Collaborators: Education Specialist (Sam Langford), Community Artist (John Martin Fulton), Performance Artist (Alice Haskell)

A citizen science project raising awareness of ticks & tick-borne diseases across Scotland, empowering people to make informed decisions about accessing the outdoors.

Role: Co-founder and evaluation consultant

Collaborators: Illustration (Hana Ayoob), Animator (Willow Marler)

A creative collaboration aiming to find better ways to dispel misconceptions and communicate real insights into the experiences of those living with Parkinson’s Disease.

Role: Public Engagement Training and Events Management

Dear World Project was a cross-disciplinary public engagement collaboration that explored mental health, its diagnosis, and the use of labels often associated with feelings and emotions.

Role: Events Programming & Management

A Welsh Government funded project working to champion Welsh horticulture, plants for pollinators, the protection of wildlife and the virtues of growing plants for food, fun, health and well-being.

Role: Events Programming & Management