my projects.

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

Role: Fellowship Awardee

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

A project funded by the Alzheimer’s Research UK Inspire Fund addressing gaps in knowledge and services for farming communities affected by dementia in Scotland. We aim to co-produce resources and empower Community Champions.

Role: Co-lead with Martin Robertson

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, creating Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors. The project also has a vast public engagement programme.

Role: Evaluation Consultant on funded project and Public Consultation Specialist during Development Phase

‘Leaving an Impression’ uses medieval methods of ‘reading through feeling’ to mediate complex emotions that may be difficult to express verbally. The project works with several groups for whom physical and emotional touch can be complex and aims to use haptic interaction with words and images as a way of experiencing and communicating difficult emotions.

Role: Research Impact Specialist

Through methods of inclusive co-production, this project is creating culturally-appropriate engagement strategies and resources in collaboration with South Asian affected by dementia. We aim to reduce inequalities in dementia care for South Asian communities.

Role: Public and Community Engagement Specialist

The EMPOWER Dementia Network+ is a dedicated network of people who want to work together to make things fair and equal for everyone with dementia. We are co-producing a future where people can do things that they enjoy and that matter to them, and where they can spend time with the people they care about.

Role: Public & Community Engagement Specialist

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). We aim to break down barriers between fundamental virologists and people living with HIV and Hepatitis C.

Role: Co-founder and Project Lead

A citizen science project raising awareness of ticks & tick-borne diseases across Scotland. By engaging with communities and co-creating resources we aim to empower people to make informed decisions about accessing the outdoors, and inform land management and ecological efforts across the country.

Role: Co-founder and evaluation consultant

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