I am a writer, photographer, filmmaker and researcher.

My short stories and parts of my memoir of growing up in a northern vicarage in the 1950s and 1960 have won prizes or been published in anthologies.

I am a keen traveller and since 2008 both my travel articles and photography have been published in the British and Australian press.

I have worked on equality, racial and social justice issues for much of my working life including as Head of Equality and Diversity at the V&A. This led to me studying child migration to Britain for a collaborative PHD between Queen Mary University of London and the V&A Museum of Childhood, now Young V&A.

This research has inspired the award-winning website, films and public engagement programme Child Migrant Stories co-produced with former child migrants and film editor Mitchell Harris and the publication Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain: Oral Histories 1930s – Present Day by Bloomsbury February 2024.

With colleagues from QMUL and elsewhere I carried out research into the impact of COVID-19 on artists and museums for Stay Home Stories. I also collaborated with Mitchell Harris over the related production of videos and podcasts.

I have lived in Hackney, East London for over 40 years. During COVID-19 I took photos of my neighbours holding objects that sustained them during lockdown leading to the publication Life Under Lockdown: On Mehetabel Road and Isabella Road in Hackney 2020. See also the film Life Under Lockdown.

Hotel Maestre in Cordoba, Spain, August 2019