I am a ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow sitting between the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape and Open Lab, Newcastle University. I have degrees in both town planning and computing, and recently finished my PhD (within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics) that explored how technology can create the means for an open dialogue around place, and how through these technologies, more meaningful discussions can happen about the future of cities.
My research sits at the intersection of digital technology, design, human–computer interaction and town planning, with a focus on alternative and enhanced tools and methods for participation in planning. These tools and methods include pervasive and wearable computing systems, alongside audio, visual and social media in novel interactive systems. Through this I explore how technologies can be designed, developed and evaluated within real world settings, with the aim of understanding the implications of these for citizen engagement and planning practice.
2022
Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
2022 – RTPI Library Series
2021
Fragments of the Past: Curating Peer Support with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
2021 – Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)
Open 10.1145/3411764.3445611
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London
2021 – Urban Geography
Open 10.1080/02723638.2021.1934628
A ‘Planning Revolution’ or an ‘Attack on Planning’ in England: Democratisation, Digitisation and Digitalisation
2021 – International Planning Studies
2020
Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale
2020 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Open 10.1145/3313831.3376885
“We come together as one…and hope for solidarity to live on”: On Designing Technologies for Activism and the Commemoration of Lost Lives
2020 – Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '20
Open 10.1145/3357236.3395452
Reflections on Deploying Community-Driven Visualisations for Public Engagement in Urban Planning
2020 – Urban Planning
Open 10.17645/up.v5i2.3008
Common Language of Sustainability for Built Environment Professionals—The Quintuple Helix Model for Higher Education
2020 – Energies
Open 10.3390/en13225860
2019
Urban planning, public participation and digital technology: App development as a method of generating citizen involvement in local planning processes
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Open 10.1177/2399808317712515
Let’s draw and talk about urban change: Deploying digital technology to encourage citizen participation in urban planning
2019 – Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Open 10.1177/2399808319831290
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Open 10.1145/3310284