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 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)

A project funded by the Alzheimer’s Research UK Inspire Fund aiming to address 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

Collaborator: Health Equity specialist (Heidi Green)

Through methods of inclusive co-production, this project will build trust and co-create culturally-appropriate engagement strategies and resources in collaboration with South Asian community groups across London and the West Midlands. Together we will reduce inequalities in dementia care for South Asian communities.

Role: Public and Community Engagement Specialist

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), Eliza Wolfson (Branding)

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