I joined Glasgow School of Art in 2015 following teaching appointments at Goldsmiths, University of London; University of the Creative Arts and Manchester Metropolitan University. At GSA I teach Design History and Theory for undergraduate Fashion & Textiles and co-ordinate the PhD programme for the School of Fine Art.

My research explores intersections between queer and feminist politics and cultural production after the 1960s. This has led me to publish on various subjects including practices of citation in contemporary artist moving image, lesbian-identified photographic cultures, queer print cultures in the US and Europe, and feminist documentary image making.

I hold a PhD from the former Manchester Institute for Research in Art and Design (2016) and before that studied photography practice and theory at the University of Westminster and in Durham University’s Centre for Advance Photography Studies. I also undertook postgraduate research as part of Vision Forum, a mobile laboratory associated with Linköpings universitet, Sweden.

Between 2016 and 2018 I was a postdoctoral researcher on the project Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS queer sexual cultures at the University of Edinburgh and from 2018 until 2021 was a Research Excellence Academic Fellow in the Department of Fine Art at Newcastle University. In 2019/20, I was appointed Honorary Fellow in Contemporary Art and Curating at the University of Edinburgh.

I am the editor of Phyllis Christopher, Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003 (Book Works, 2022), co-editor with Glyn Davis of Queer Print in Europe (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022) and am currently working on my first monograph about the photographs and photographers who contributed to On Our Backs, the magazine aimed at the 'adventurous lesbian' and founded in the San Francisco in 1984.

I am co-lead with Dr Kristin Mojsiewicz (Edinburgh College of Art) of the Scottish Graduate School's Creative Arts and Design Discipline+Catalyst and currently chair the SGSAH DTP Creative Arts and Design panel. I sit on the CA2RE Scientific Committee, the board of the artist-led organisation Rhubaba and the LUX Scotland Advisory Group.

I currently supervise two PhD students and am able interested in receiving proposals in any of my research areas.