I am Deputy Head and Reader at the School of Digital Arts, and a researcher in film practice and pedagogy. My practice-led research primarily focuses on dialogues between concepts, processes and poetics of artist-documentary film and landscape, environment and work. Recent films include explorations of landscape and labour of young people working in shepherding, forestry and farming in the English Midlands; tensions between working life and tourism in the Lake District; the urban-rural interface of a Halifax housing estate, and the play of forces at the highest point of the M62 motorway.
Current research explores multispecies industries of landscape-scale forest regeneration located within the bounds of a ground-breaking rewilding initiative in the Highlands of Scotland, investigating how film can be used to resituate human endeavour within the relational flow of life in in the context of rewilding’s ‘future nature’ approach to ecosystem restoration.