About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
This section will only display on your public profile if you’ve added content.
You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.
Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Your current research, published research topics, projects and groups.
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You can update the information for this section in Pure (opens in a new tab).
Research groups
Any research groups you belong to will automatically appear on your profile. Speak to your line manager if these are incorrect. Please do not raise a ticket in Ask HR.
Research interests
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.
In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.
Current research
Update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’ and then ‘Curriculum and research description - Current research’.
Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, “sustainability” or “fashion textiles”.
Research projects
Research Council funded projects will automatically appear here. The active project name is taken from the finance system.
Publications
Public outputs that list you as an author will appear here, once they’re validated by the ePrints Team. If you’re missing any outputs that you’ve added to Pure, they may be waiting for validation.
Supervision
A list of your current and past PhD students.
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Contact your Faculty Operating Service team to update PhD students you supervise and any you’ve previously supervised. Making this information available will help potential PhD applicants to find you.
Teaching
A short description of your teaching interests and responsibilities.
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You can update your teaching description in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’ , select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select – ‘Teaching Interests’. Describe your teaching interests and your current responsibilities. Aim for 200 words maximum.
Courses and modules
Contact the Curriculum and Quality Assurance (CQA) team for your faculty to update this section.
External roles and responsibilities
These are the public-facing activities you’d like people to know about.
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You can update your external roles and responsibilities in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘+ Add content’ and then ‘Activity’, your ‘Personal’ tab and then ‘Activities’. Choose which activities you want to show on your public profile.
You can hide activities from your public profile. Set the visibility as 'Backend' to only show this information within Pure, or 'Confidential' to make it visible only to you.
Biography
I am an interdisciplinary scholar and academic leader whose work explores the cultural, political, and social functions of performance in times of crisis. I’m fascinated by why we (still) make performance—what it does, what it means, and how it shapes the world around us. My research engages with contemporary aesthetic practices and everyday performance events, from protests and carnival parades to political speeches and media representations, asking how performance helps us witness, respond to, and make sense of complex social realities.
My work is rooted in critical performance studies and driven by a commitment to collaboration, impact, and cultural advocacy. I co-lead Performing City Resilience, a research organisation/project that works internationally to understand how performance can reconfigure ideas and practices of resilience in organisational, community, and city contexts. I’ve led major international research projects working with and across higher education, healthcare, emergency planning, and policy sectors, and my research has been commissioned for non-academic contexts and widely published.
As Head of Winchester School of Art, I provide strategic leadership for one of the UK’s leading creative schools. I guide WSA’s vision as a globally engaged, research-led, and socially responsive institution, championing interdisciplinarity and innovation in creative education and research. I also oversee multi-site growth, resource planning, and civic partnerships, working to build inclusive academic cultures where creativity and critical inquiry thrive.
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in any area that aligns with my research expertise—particularly those exploring performance, culture, resilience, and the socio-political dimensions of contemporary cultural production.
Before joining Southampton in July 2025, I held substantive posts at the Universities of Northampton (2009-12), Exeter (2012-15), Surrey (2015-19) and Northumbria (2020-2025). I have also been fortunate to hold visiting fellowships/professorships at a number of institutions internationally, including: Cornell (USA, 2013), the University of Galway (Ireland, 2018), and the University of Hildesheim (Germany, 2015 & 2019-20).
You can update your biography section in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select your ‘Personal’ tab then ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading, and ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘Biography’. Aim for no more than 400 words.
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Prizes
You can update this section in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘+Add content’ and then ‘Prize’. using the ‘Prizes’ section.
You can choose to hide prizes from your public profile. Set the visibility as ‘Backend’ to only show this information within Pure, or ‘Confidential’ to make it visible only to you.