‘Pollard Sprouts’ poem longlisted for Urban Tree Festival and published online. VIEW HERE

• ‘Cloudbusting’ poem selected by Wildfire words and published in April 2022 feature online. VIEW HERE

• Two poems published on The 87 Press’ digital publication, ‘The Hythe’ VIEW HERE

• Published in issue 8 of Propel Magazine (Nov 2023). VIEW HERE

• Gave paper on 23rd June 2022 at ‘SHAPE the future’ postgraduate conference at Birkbeck- on poet Eliza Cook and ‘debt’ to trees. This was for fellow postgraduate students from all disciplines.

• Selected to give a well-received paper as part of a panel at British Association for Victorian Studies on poet Eliza Cook in September 2022: a prestigious event for academics in the field.

• Gave talk for Grave Matters- ‘Conservation as consolation’ (Jun 2023)- adapted as blog post. 

• Gave paper on Toru Dutt for Birkbeck postgraduate conference (June 2023). This was for fellow postgraduate students from all disciplines.

• Following their ‘Tree Cultures’ event in July 2024 , in which I gave a paper on trees in the poetry of Toru Dutt to a group of mixed specialists and non-specialists with an interest in plants, I was asked to contribute to a Kew Gardens-organised special issue of the academic journal Plant Perspectives- a creative-critical article about the working-class poet Eliza Cook and yew trees- forthcoming 2025. Previous examples can be viewed HERE

• Two years running, invited to write and perform collaboratively with a Swiss poet at SJ Fowler’s ‘European Poetry Festival’ at the National Poetry Library – June 2022 and April 2023.

• Co-organised and performed at The 87 Press and Contemporary Poetics Research Centre event ‘Summer in the Way’- paper and poetry reading about Anglo-Indian poet Toru Dutt and casuarina trees.

• Performed at Dreich’s ‘Summer Anywhere’ festival in Leith’s Heritage Centre- (September 2022).

• Performed at Dreich press’ ‘Summer Anywhere’ event with Alycia Pirmohamed (Sept 6).

• Performed at Written Off (formerly Bent Key) gothic open mic (Oct 2023)

• Hosted ‘Summer Anywhere’ online event for Dreich, a grassroots Scottish poetry press (September 2022) 

•As walk-listen-create’s poet and writer-in-residence, organised, wrote and presented online events re trees and walking – ‘Finding a Place: creative critical wanderings in landscape’ with Noreen Masud and Anna Burton: April and May 2024. These comprised hosting, fielding and posing questions, and presenting my own creative responses to writers’ work

• As an English teacher, I proofread and make editorial suggestions on c. 60-100 pieces of student writing per week and 200 pieces of student coursework per academic year, as well as designing teaching resources adapted to my classes- often up to 6 hours‘ worth of new written material per day.

• Taught on creative writing BA at Birkbeck as Associate Tutor (Jan- Mar 23). This involved proofreading and editing students’ creative work, running weekly workshops and writing teaching materials. 

• Contributed to solidarity workshop w/ 87 press (Jul 2023) – collaborative poem and info HERE

• During my MA at Birkbeck, won the Peltz scholarship for academic excellence.

• Also won two prizes for my work on this MA- ‘Best Dissertation’ and ‘Most Promising Victorianist’.

• Won full funding for my PhD project from the CHASE consortium, comprising 7 years of stipend and fees payment. 

• Shortlisted for Walk-Listen-Create's ‘Walking A/Way’ competition- winner of the poetry category (Sept 23)  

• Won a free place at Write&Shine creative writing summer school (July 2024)

• Recipient of a £1000 grant for Birkbeck’s Harkness Prize- for outstanding research into a nineteenth-century woman or women.

Passed PhD upgrade; research described as ‘potentially field-shifting’.

“This creative critical project is a beautifully written, well researched, and original contribution to scholarship and creative writing around nineteenth-century arboreal poetry.”

“The writing is clear, elegant, compelling, authoritative. This is outstanding work that has the power to make a field-shifting contribution to the fields of nineteenth-century studies and contemporary ecopoetics.”

• In 2024, I was invited to give an interview contributing to Grace Van der Wielen’s PhD research on plane trees, discussing their cultural associations in art and poetry; Grace is from a social science background, so the content of this interview was adapted for her.